
^^^^^-z.^^-/ L>Ci5 



THE 



BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 



First Congregational Church 
and Society 



OF 



BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT 



June I2th and 13th, 1895 



NEW HAVEN; 

The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press 

1895 



/0 






PREFACE. 



The First Church and Society of Bridgeport — originally 
the Parish of Stratfield — looked forward to the two- 
hundredth anniversary of its organization for some years 
previous with increasing interest. The celebration was 
carefvilly planned and most successfully carried out. The 
decorations of the church were extremely effective; the 
weather was perfect ; the attendance of interested and sym- 
pathetic audiences was from beginning to end as great as 
could be accommodated; the music — rendered by the com- 
bined choirs of the First, the Second, the Park Street 
Congregational Churches, and the Presbyterian Church — 
was admirable ; in short, the occasion seemed to those 
most concerned to be a delightful one in ever}- particular. 
It appeared desirable to preserve a permanent record of it. 
As far as practicable, to do this is the purpose of the pres- 
ent volume. 

One feature of the celebration was of necessity an inci- 
dent of the occasion only. By dint of much research and 
labor, and the contribution of many willing hands, a re- 
markable loan-collection of relics was gathered and exhib- 
ited in the Chapel. The Committee take this opportunity 
of tendering their hearty thanks to all who lent their aid 
toward this most valuable and interesting illustration of 
the history which the celebration commemorated. 

The proceedings in the several services were stenograph- 
ically reported by Mr. F. G. Fowler. The lists of members 
have been compiled by the sub-committee constituted for 
the purpose — among whom it is not invidious to name Mr. 
Richard B. Cogswell. While the result is avowedly and 



— 4— 



inevitably incomplete, his indefatigable industry has accom- 
plished a task to which few could have proved equal, which 
many will count invaluable. This volume has been edited 
for the committee of arrangements, at their request, by its 
chairman. The frontispiece has been added by their direc- 
tion. The editor hopes that the result of his endeavors will 
be accepted by the dear friends he has served for so many 
years with the gracious consideration which he has always 
experienced at their hands, and that one abiding fruitage 
of the Bi-Centennial may be an increased consciousness on 
the part of the citizens of Bridgeport of the inspiration to 
be derived from its honorable history. 

CHARLES RAY PALMER. 

New Haven, Sept. lo, iSgs- 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

FACE. 

1. List of Committees, . . . . . . . . . T,8 

2. The Letter of Invitation, -9 

3. The Programme, ......... 10-14 

4. The services on Wednesday afternoon, the 12th, including the 

Historical Discourse, 15 

5. The services on Wednesday evening, 47 

6. The services on Thursday forenoon, the 13th, .... 68 

7. The services on Thursday afternoon, ..... 109 

8. The services on Sunday, the i6th, including the second part 

of the Historical Discourse, ...... 142 

9. List of Sites marked for their Historic interest, . . . ,156 

10. Extracts from Letters, ......... 157 

11. Lists of Members, 163 



i695 1895 

BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEE. 



Committee of First Church and Society. 



Rowland B 
William B. Hincks, 
Morris B. Beardsley, 
Howard G. Hubeell, 
Robert E. Wheeler, 
N. Eugene Wordin, 
Charles Sherwood, 



Charles Ray Palmer, 
Lacey, 



Chairman. 
Henry R. Parrott, 
Henry C. Cogswell, 
Silas Burton, 
Willard p. Abernethy, 
John T. Sterling, 
Horace W. Smith, 
Ebenezer Burr. 



Cooperative Committee of South Church. 

Samuel W. Baldwin, Edward Sterling, 



Alexander Hawley, 



Lewis B. Silliman, 



Curtis Thompson. 



C. R. Palmer, 
H. C. Cogswell, 



H. R. Parrott, 
John A. Barri, 



C. R. Palmer, 
C. Sherwood, 



L. B. Silliman, 

W. G. LiNEBURGH, 



Sub-Committees. 
On Exercises. 

E. Burr. 
On Music. 



H. R. Parrott, 
R. B. Lacey, 



Mrs. E. Beardsley, 
A. T. Goodsell, 



Miss E. Durand. 
On Invitations. 



F. Russell, 

O. H. Brothwell, 



R. B, Cogswell. 
On Hospitality. 



M. B. Beardsley, 
L W. Birdsey, 



E. F. Meeker. 



A. Hawlev, 

E. Sterling, 

F. C. Lyon, 



Gti Reception and Information. 

E. P. HiNCKS, 
H. D. SiMONDS, 

F. W. Parrott. 



W. B. HiNCKS, 

E. Burr, 
E. C. Smith, 

T. C. WORDIN, 



On Finance. 



W. E. Seeley, 
W. P. Abernethy, 

G. COMSTOCK, 

J. C. Curtis. 



Silas Burton, 
W. A. Smith, 



On Decorations. 



W. N. MiDDLEBROOK, 
J. G. HOWLAND, 



A. H. Gamsby. 



On Printing and Publicatioti. 



H. C. Cogswell, 
A. W. Stillman, 



E. F. Strong, 
C. Thompson, 



N. E. Wordin. 



On Historic Sites and Relics. 



R. B. Lacey, 
R. B. Cogswell, 



S. W. Baldwin, 
F. B. Hawley, 



David S. Beach. 



H. G. Hubbell, 
F. Trubee, 
H. Birdsey, 



On Luncheon. 



J. T. Sterling, 
H. W. Smith, 
R. E. Wheeler. 



On List of Members. 
A. H. Gamsby, R. B. Cogswell, 

E. Sterling, O. H. Brothwell, 

A. W. Stillman. 



— 9- 



1695 




i895 



JUNE THIRTEENTH. 

The First Church and Societ)- in Bridgeport — the South Church co- 
operating — cordially invite j'ou to be present at the celebration of the 

TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

of the organization of the Church of Christ in Stratfield, June 13th, 1695. 

The exercises will commence on Wednesday afternoon and conclude 
on Thursday afternoon, June 12th and 13th, 1895. They will comprise 
a historical discourse by the Pastor, appropriate papers and addresses, 
music, and a collation. 

Please inform Mr. Charles Sherwood of your acceptance of this invita- 
tion as early as June ist, if you desire arrangements made for your 
entertainment. 

Cordially yours. 



CHARLES RAY PALMER, 
CHARLES SHERWOOD, 
FRANK RUSSELL, 
ORLANDO H. BROTHWELL, 
RICHARD B. COGSWELL, 

Committee of Invitation. 



Byidgeporty May ist^ tSqs, 



-10 — 



THE PROGRAMME. 

1695 JUNE THIRTEENTH. 1895 




ORDER OF SERVICES 



JUNE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH, 1895, 



COMMEMOKATIVE OF THE 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



Organization of thf. Church at Stratfield, June i2th, 1695. 



— II- 



ORDER OF SERVICES. 
WEDNESDAY, TWELFTH JUNE. 

AFTERNOON. 
(Commencing at half past two.) 



1. Organ Prelude 

2. doxology. 

3. Reading of Scripture 

4. Prayer, By Rev. Frank Russell, D.D. 

5. Anthem, " We Praise Thee, O God !" [. Baptiste Calkin. 

6. Historical Discourse, . . By Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, D.D. 

7. Hymn 1312, 

" O God ! beneath thy guiding hand 
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea." 

8. Benediction 



-12 — 



ORDER OF SERVICES. 
WEDNESDAY, TWELFTH JUNE. 

EVENING. 

(Commencing at quarter before eight.) 



1. Organ Prelude 

2. Anthem, " Great is the Lord." Dr. Calcott. 

3. Prayer 

4. Welcome to Invited Guests 

5. Ancient Psalmodv — Hymn 97, K'ellte, 1561. 

" All people that on earth do dwell." 

6. Addresses From Invited Guests. 

(1) The Rector of St. John's Parish, Rev. William H. Lewis. 

(2) The Pastor of the First Baptist Church, 

Rev. George W. Nicholson. 

(3) The Pastor of the First Methodist Church, 

Rev. Joseph Pullman, D.D. 

(4) The Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, 

Rev. Henry A. Davenport. 

7. Ancient Psalmody, IV. Billings. 

" The Lord descended from on high." 

8. Benediction 



—13— 
ORDER OF SERVICES. 

THURSDAY, THIRTEENTH JUNE. 

MORNING. 
(Commencing at ten o'clock.) 



1. Drum Prelude 

2. Organ Voluntary 

3. Anthem, " Send Out Thy Light." Gounod. 

4. Prayer of Commemoration 

5. Paper on the Limits of Stratfield Parish as Originally 

Constituted Bj' Dea. Rowland B. Lacey. 

6. Roll Call of Original Members of the Stratfield 

Church, to be responded to by their Descendants. 

7. Hymn 1046, " O God of Bethel, by whose hand !" 

8. Commemorative Addresses. 

(i) The Saybrook Constitution and the Connecticut 

Churches, Prof. George P. Fisher, D.D., LL.D., 

New Haven. 

(2) The Memory of the Fathers the Inspiration of their 

Children, Hon. Euphalet W. Blatchford, 

Chicago, 111. 
Interlude, " The breaking waves dashed high." 

(3) The Service of Learning the Service of the Churches, 

Rev. Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., 

New Haven. 

(4) The Debt of a Community to its Founders, 

Hon. Joseph Hawley, LL.D., 

U. S. Senate. 

9. Letters from Absent but not Forgotten Friends. 

10. Paper on the Relation of the Parish of Stratfield to 

the City of Bridgeport, to be followed by a Greet- 
ing from His Honor, the Mayor, Hon. Frank E. 
Clark. 

11. Hymn loig, " O where are kings and empires now ?" 

12. Recess for the Luncheon. 



— 14- 



ORDER OF SERVICES. 
THURSDAY, THIRTEENTH JUNE. 

AFTERNOON. 
(Commencing at half past two.) 



" Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" 

1. Organ Prelude 

2. Anthem, " Praise the Lord." Randegger. 

3. Words from the Mother Churches. 

(i) First Cluirch in Fairfield, . . . Rev. Frank S. Child. 
(2) First Church in Stratford, . . . Rev. JOEL S. Ives. 

4. Hymn 329, " Ye tribes of Adam join," 

5. Words from the Daughter Churches. ...... 

(i) The South Church, . . . Rev. Frank Russell, D.D. 

(2) The Park Street Church, Rev. Edward Grier Fullerton. 

(3) Olivet Church Rev. Edwin K. Holden. 

(4) The West-End Church, . . Rev. Cyrus F. Stimson. 

(5) The King's Highway Churcli, . Rev. Wilson R. Stewart. 

6. Hymn 854, " Happy the souls to Jesus joined." 

7. Benediction 



SERVICES OF 
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 

Organ Prelude, by A. T. Goodsell. 
DOXOLOGY. 



Reading of the Scripture and Prayer, 

By Rev. FRANK RUSSELL, D.D. 

T/ie Scripture Lesson. 

" We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us. 

What work thou didst in their days, in the days of old. 

Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst 
them in : 

Thou didst afflict the peoples, and didst spread them abroad. 

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, 

Neither did their own arm save them : 

But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy coun- 
tenance, 

Because thou hadst a favor unto them." 

[Ps. xliv ; 1-3.] 



— 16— 

"We have thought on th)' loving kindness, O God, 

In the midst of thy temple. 

As is thy name, O God, 

So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth. 

Thy right hand is full of righteousness. 

Let Mount Zion be glad, 

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, 

Because of thy judgments. 

Walk about Zion, and go round about her : 

Tell the towers thereof. 

Mark ye well her bulwarks, 

Consider her palaces ; 

That ye may tell it to the generation following. 

For this God is our God forever and ever. 

He will be our guide even unto death." 

[Ps. xlviii : 9-14.] 
" Thou, O Lord, shalt abide forever 
And thy memorial unto all generations." 
"This shall be written for the generation to come : 
And a people which shall be created shall praise the Lord." 
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth ; 
And the heavens are the work of thy hands. 
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure ; 
Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; 
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be 

changed : 
But thou art the same, 
And thy years shall have no end. 
The children of thy servants shall continue. 
And their seed shall be established before thee." 

[Ps. cii : 12, 18, 25-28. J 



-17- 



Let us unite our hearts in prayer: — 

Our Father, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all 
generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or 
ever Thou hast formed the earth and the world, from everlast- 
ing to everlasting Thou art God. Thou dost sit above the 
heavens watching the stream of human history, which Thou 
didst Thyself form. This stream pours beyond our sight, for 
Thou art ever calling hence from our number those that are 
saved. Many have been the mightiest of men, filled with 
Thee ; and they strove divinely for the truth. Thou gavest 
them the truth and made it clear to their eyes, and they 
handed it down to their children. They were also strong 
because of Thine own presence with them. Thou didst 
enlighten the generations by means of them. Thou didst 
exalt some in every generation to be leaders of men, to work 
Thy will on the earth. We bless Thee for those who sought 
to know Thy will and to do it in Thy fear — for these leaders, 
examples, benefactors on the earth. We thank Thee for the 
gifts and graces with which Thou didst endow them ; for the 
experiences by which Thou didst edify them ; for the charac- 
ters Thou didst perfect in them ; that they have been in the 
midst of Thine assemblies as golden candlesticks placed by 
Thine own hand at the altar. 

We praise Thee and we bless Thee for the throngs of 
martyrs and apostles who have known Thee and lived to work 
Thy praise on the earth, who have gone hence, leaving the 
heritage of their good work and their influence on their chil- 
dren behind them. To-day we almost see them in gathering 
ranks about Thee, some gone so long we would question 
whether they would recognize us, in the ranks of the glorified 
before Thee ; and yet we know there is nothing that would 
more heighten their joy than to see us carrying on the good 
work which they so nobly commenced. We see them now in 
the innumerable company of those that sing the song of 
Moses and the Lamb ; and above them all we see the pierced 
hands of the Great Head of the Church. 

We bless Thee for Thy Church in this world — the Church 
of the Living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. We 



— 18— 

praise Thee that Thou didst establish it, and hast preserved it, 
and given honor unto it. We bring Thee thanksgiving that 
it still stands ; that the glory has not departed from the temples 
which Thou hast built. We praise Thee that the gospel of 
redemption is preached among men, with altogether wider 
extent and, as we would fain believe, with a deeper and more 
pervasive spirit than ever before. Thy servants are not 
retreating among men, they are sending Thy light with 
increasing brightness into the life of the world. 

When we look back to see older times of great darkness, 
that there were nations living in wickedness, who knew not 
the name of Christ, we are grateful to Thee that now His 
name is known among all nations, and almost by all mankind. 
May the whole earth be filled with the knowledge of Him, and 
all flesh see Thy salvation ! 

Bless Thy people, as they have gathered to wait before 
Thee. We praise Thee that in successive generations this 
church has not failed. Thou hast kept it ; Thou hast given 
wisdom and power and learning unto it. Thou hast declared 
that the law should go forth out of Zion, and Thy law 
has gone forth and men have received it, and have been 
drawn near to Thyself, and have lived for Thee, and have 
done with great courage and with great success that which 
Thou didst require at their hands. We bring Thee thanks- 
giving and praise for this church of Christ. We bless Thee 
that Thou hast given it for preaching and for prayer, and to 
spread the gospel among men, that the songs of Zion have 
been learned here, and messages of divine grace and love 
have come with power in the sanctuary, and thousands have 
been moved to serve Thee and so order their household that 
their children after them should be Thy children, and should 
rise up to praise Thee. 

We thank Thee for the privilege of coming together at this 
time to rehearse the goodly things of the past, among which 
Thy hand has been clearly seen, and to commemorate Thy 
goodness to the children of men ; and of looking unto Thee 
for the presence of Thy spirit in the work that is to come. 
We pray that at the beginning of this commemorative exer- 
cise Thy spirit may pervade every heart; that Thou wilt bless 
us in hearing, bless us in praying, bless us in singing, and 
bless us in speaking, that in all which shall be said, thought 



—Ig- 
or done may, on the part of every one of us, be such as to 
reflect the influence of Thy presence among these Thy people. 

We pray for Thy blessing upon Thy servant who shall 
address us. We thank Thee for his exalted labors in this 
place. We thank Thee that Thou hast been around about 
him, and hast kept him, and we pray Thou wilt still continue 
his years in whatever work Thou shalt appoint to him. 

Bless us, we pray Thee, in the exercises of this afternoon, 
this evening, and on the morrow. Do Thou dwell with Thy 
people, and in all the future lead them. 

We ask it in the great name of Jesus, the Head of the 
Church, who died that we may never die, to whom be all the 
glor3^ Amen. 



Anthem, " We Praise Thee, O God."— J. Baptiste Calkin. 



Dr. Palmer: My friends, it is desired, so far as possi- 
ble, to register the names of all who are here to-day. A 
list will be increasingly interesting as time goes on. The 
register is in the vestibule ; I will thank any of you who 
have not registered to do so before leaving the house. 

I want to call your attention also to a collection of 
relics in the upper room of the chapel, which may be seen 
any time to-day or to-morrow. 

I want to say further, before the close of these services, 
a photographer will take a view of the house and audience 
in it. I shall request you to wait a moment, at the close 
of the services, for this purpose ; it will take but a moment, 
and will represent the house, just as it is, to the genera- 
tions who will come after us. 



HISTORICAL DISCOURSE 



The text which I will prefix to my discourse is in the 
thirt)'-second chapter of Deuteronomy, seventh verse: 
" Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many 
generations. Ask thy father and he will show thee ; Thine 
elders and they will tell thee." 

Two centuries of human history cannot be reviewed 
in a day. Two centuries of the history of a single com- 
munity cannot be set forth in a single discourse. I am 
embarrassed at the very threshold of m}' task by its mag- 
nitude and complexity. Yet that something be said on 
this interesting anniversar}' of what has transpired since 
the fathers in the fear of God and in Christian solicitude 
for their families organized this venerable church, is a 
most reasonable expectation. Relying upon your con- 
siderate kindness, 1 address myself to my obvious duty. 

It has always been an interesting fact to me that this 
church originated in the period commonly spoken of as 
"the dark days" of Colonial history. Many historical 
students have set forth with graphic delineations the 
special hardships, anxieties, discouragements, perils, and 
calamities of the ten years from 1685 to 1695. There was 
abundant cause for the gloom and depression which pre- 
vailed. The Indian wars, in which it has been estimated 
that one in six of the able-bodied men in New England 
lost their lives, and which laid upon the colonies heavy 
burdens of taxation, and wrought a very general demor- 
alization; the political excitements which followed the 
death of Charles II. and convulsed the colonies with the 
fear of entirely losing the liberties, ecclesiastical and 
civil, that the fathers had crossed the sea to secure, and 
that the struggles of sixty 3'ears had made precious ; the 
revolution in 1689, and the new movements that followed 
it; the suffering and the losses ensuing from the raids of 



-21- 



pirates upon the coasts ; floods and storms and frosts of 
unusual severity, with short crops and depressed trade; 
the panic about witchcraft and satanic agencies, due to 
an epidemic of superstition ; — these and other incidents of 
that extremely critical period made it a time of despond- 
ency and of apprehension to a degree hardly to be appre- 
ciated by us in these more favored days. It is difficult 
for us, without entering deeply into the history of " the 
woful decade," as it has been called, even approximately 
to measure the gloom which prevailed. Does it not add 
dignity and sacredness to the beginnings we commemo- 
rate that they were made in this particular period ? Does 
it not enhance our estimate of the labors and the sacri- 
fices of which the organization of this church was the 
fruitage, to remember just when it was that an undaunted 
faith and a resolute public spirit prompted them ? We 
shall not do justice to the memory of the fathers unless 
we recognize what discouragements they overcame. 

Could we reproduce in imagination the site of our fair 
city as it was two hundred and fifty years ago, we should 
see it a wilderness, without inhabitants other than a tribe 
of Indians on Golden Hill. About twenty -five years later 
it became — so far west as Park Avenue — part of the town- 
ship of Stratford, having been acquired by purchase. 
West of Park Avenue the territory pertained to Fairfield. 
The settlement of this site began in the pushing forth of 
Stratford and Fairfield families in this direction. Abso- 
lutely the first to locate here, it is said, were two Strat- 
ford families, who came as early as 1665, that of Henry 
Summers and that of Samuel Gregory.* Their homes 
were near the corner of Park and Washington Avenues. 
Next came John and Samuel Beardsley, and then the 
community was fairly begun. By 1678 it was large 
enough to have a school of its own with forty-seven 
scholars, and to sue for release from school rates to 
Fairfield. By i6go it had grown so large as to seek for 
church privileges as well. Just when religious services 
began to be held, one cannot say. But the movement 

* Brothers-in-law. 



— 22 — 

which issued in the formation of this church seems to 
have had its impulse in the presence of Mr. Charles 
Chauncey. This young man came here, I imagine, as a 
school master. He was made freeman of Fairfield on 
March i8, 1690, but he had then been here for some time 
and had already done duty as a minister, although not 
ordained. He was the son of Rev. Israel Chauncey of 
Stratford, and grandson of Charles Chaunce3^ the second 
President of Harvard College, one of the Puritan Divines 
silenced and driven from England in 1637.* Israel Chaun- 
cey was his youngest son, a graduate of Harvard in 1661, 
and one of the founders of Yale. His son Charles was 
born in Stratford September 3, 1668, and graduated at 
Harvard in 16S6. There is evidence of his being here as 
early as 1687 ; there is a receipt signed by him dating 
from 1688; I incline to the belief that he came here not 
very long after his college graduation to teach ; that 
while employed as teacher he began to hold informal 
religious meetings, and that very gradually this kind of 
labor developed into the relation of a minister which he 
afterwards sustained. The earliest approach to a formal 
organization seems to have been in the formation of the 
Fairfield Village Society in 1693, when we find a vote that 
" Mr. Chauncey for his encouragement in the ministry in 
this place shall have sixty pounds in good provisions for 
the year ensuing." This action of course implies that his 
ministry had become a recognized fact. The household- 
ers here had, some three years before the last named date, 
begun the movement which culminated in the organiza- 
tion of this church. A petition dated May 2, 1690, and 
signed by forty-six taxpayers — thirteen of Stratford and 
thirty-three of Fairfield — was sent to the General Court, 
asking that they be exempted from paying any minister's 
rates in Stratford and Fairfield, with a view to their pro- 
viding for themselves. Although the Fairfield minister 
approved the project, his townsmen generally did not ; 
the representatives of Fairfield opposed it and the peti- 
tion was refused. In May 1691 the application was 

* Reached Plymouth in 1638. 




CONJECTURAL APPEARANCE OF FIRST EDIFICE. 



—23— 

renewed and the General Court granted liberty to the 
applicants to procure and settle a minister of their own, 
provided that such as belonged to Fairfield should still 
pay their rates in that town. In October of the same 
year they were released from this provision ; in Decem- 
ber 1692 the town of Stratford voted land for a meeting- 
house ; in 1693, as we have seen, a Society was organized 
and the foundation of the first edifice was commenced ; in 
May 1694 the General Court gave permission to organize 
a church ; in June 1695 the humble edifice was completed, 
and on the thirteenth it was first occupied and the church 
was duly organized. Slow and tedious must this long 
process have seemed, and persistent must have been the 
sturdy promoters of it. As it was the first instance in 
which a parish had been erected independent of town 
lines, still further legislation proved to be necessary ; but 
at length its liberties were satisfactorily settled and its 
name fixed as Stratfield. 

The first edifice stood in what we call Park Avenue, on 
what became known as Meeting-house hill. The site was 
acquired half from Stratford, half from Fairfield, and the 
building stood on the division-line. It was probably a 
humble one — nobody knows how it looked. But doubt- 
less it was dear to those who built it, and the day we 
celebrate was a joyful one — the crowning of a difficult 
and patient struggle and the beginning of an honorable 
history. 

The community was composed mainly of farmers and 
laborers. They built their own houses; no doubt they 
built their meeting-house. In the older parts of New 
England shingles superseded thatching about 1691 ; 
whether they were available in the far western frontier, 
i. e., in this locality — is perhaps questionable. We shall 
naturally think of the earliest gatherings for worship as 
composed of plain people, living in plain homes, but they 
were resolute and vigorous men, who coveted for them- 
selves and their families the best they could attain, and 
when the initial difficulties of clearing the lands and 
subduing the soil were overcome, doubtless improve- 



—24— 

merits in the homes the}' had reared were effected as 
soon as they were practicable. Framed houses succeeded 
to log-cabins, and two-story structures furnished acccmi- 
modations for the households with which the log-cabins 
had been crowded. What we call North Avenue was 
laid out in 1687, and Park Avenue somewhat later, and 
upon these for the most part lay the dwellings of Strat- 
field two hundred years ago. 

I have said forty-six householders signed the petition 
in 1690 for the erection of the new parish. The list 
probabl}' included all that were here. The first members 
of the church were nine — their wives, and some other 
women to the number of fifteen in all, joining shortly 
after its organization by letter. Mr. Chauncey had al- 
ready become entirely identified with the enterprise and 
became pastor of course. Three years previously (June 
29, 1692) he had married Sarah, daughter of Major John 
Burr of Fairfield, and granddaughter of Mr. Jehu Burr, 
who came from England and died in Fairfield in 1670. 
Sarah Burr was born July 25, 1675, and hence was less 
than seventeen on her wedding-day. On a corner of 
Major Burr's farm, in what was afterwards known as 
Cooke's Lane, a house was built for them, and here the 
young pair commenced their married life. It was to end 
too soon. She died in her twent3'-second 3'ear, leaving 
two sons. But she was here two hundred years ago. 
It is my conviction that Mr. Chauncey 's character and 
abilities commanded high respect, and that his personal 
influence was a large factor in the making of this church. 
He had the advantage of as good an education as New 
England afforded, and both his father and his grandfather 
were scholars of unusual attainments. His ministry here 
was for its time most successful. He received to full 
communion ninety-seven, and under the Half-way Cove- 
nant one hundred and thirty-three. He exercised an 
influence beyond his parish. He was a member of the 
Synod which framed the Saybrook Platform, and one of 
the founders of the Fairfield Consociation. His views 
of church polity had a decided bent toward Presbyterian- 



—25 — 

ism, and his general attitude was conservative. He died 
in his fort}' -seventh year (December 31, 1714), too young 
to^ave reached the full measure of his usefulness or his 
influence in the Colon)% but having already wrought a 
work for which we honor his memory, and to which this 
community was deeply indebted. It should not be for- 
gotten in this connection that Commodore Isaac Chaun- 
cey of the United States Navy was his great-grandson, 
whose distinguished services in the war of 1812-15 added 
lustre to his honored name. Mr. Chauncey married the 
second time, March 16, 1698, Sarah, daughter of Henry 
Wolcott, by whom he had three children. She died 
January 5, 1703. March 14, 1710, he married again, this 
time Elizabeth, daughter of John Sherwood, who sur- 
vived him. He had property in Stratford and in Eng- 
land, and left an estate valued at LjAl- 

The first deacon of the church was David Sherman, the 
son of Mr. Samuel Sherman, who came here about 1685 
and died here in 1700. Deacon David was thirty years 
old at the time we celebrate, a farmer, and lived at the 
summit of Toilsome Hill. Well-authenticated tradition 
reports him a man of good abilities and very much 
esteemed. He was specially gifted in prayer, and in 
the minister's absence took his place acceptably. He 
served the church for fifty-eight years, dying January i, 
1753. Mr. Elijah Burritt, who died at an advanced age, 
within the memory of some who are here, remembered 
him distinctly. Although he had no son, he had through 
his daughters many descendants, among others the pres- 
ent senior deacon of this church. This is a felicitous 
circumstance of our celebration. 

Of the other members of the church, one, Matthew 
Sherman, was a brother of the deacon ; two — each named 
Richard Hubbell — were father and son. Richard, Senior, 
was an immigrant from Wales, was made freeman in New 
Haven March 7, 1647, and married there, in 1650, Eliza- 
beth Meigs. After residing there for some years, and for 
some time at Guilford, he came here in 1670. He died 
October 23, 1699. His son Richard was born in New 



—26— 

Haven in 1654. The family homestead was on what we 
call Clinton Avenue. Samuel Gregor}^ has been men- 
tioned as one of the first settlers here ; he came here from 
Stratford. James Bennet and Isaac Wheeler were sons 
of settlers in Fairfield, the latter a large landholder. 
Samuel Beardsley was the son of William and Mary 
Beardsley, who came from Stratford-on-Avon, in Eng- 
land, in 1635, and he was born in 1638, the year in which 
his father settled in Stratford. He acquired land here 
near the site of the present jail, about 1670, and he, too, 
became a large landholder. The other was John Odell, 
Jr., from Fairfield. The well-known names of Sherwood, 
Wells, and Wakeley appear among the female members, 
and not long after came Thomas Hawley, the second 
deacon, and the head of a numerous line ; and probably 
in 1698 Jacob Sterling, another of the fathers of this town. 
Among the promoters of the organization who did not 
become communicants, we recognize the familiar names 
of Knapp, Bishop, Burr, Morehouse, Hall, Seeley, Jack- 
son, and Somers. 

Thus we have seen the infant communit}^ gather, supply 
itself with homes, school, minister, and church. Evidence 
is abundant that before twenty years from the day we 
commemorate had passed it had attained no inconsidera- 
ble proportions, and comprised within it substantial citi- 
zens and comfortable households. But, as has been men- 
tioned, Mr. Chauncey was gone, and one of the pressing 
needs of the 3'ear 171 5 was the procuring of a new minis- 
ter. There was another — the need of a larger church edi- 
fice. Both these needs were faced with a good courage. 

The choice of a pastor fell upon Mr. Samuel Cooke. 
He was born in Guilford, Nov. 22, 1687 — the son of 
Thomas and Sarah (Mason) Cooke. He graduated at 
Yale in 1705. He probabl)' commenced the study of 
Divinity at once, but in January, 1707, became Rector of 
the Hopkins Grammar School, and held that position for 
nine years. He found it practicable to combine with his 
duties in it, however, occasional preaching, and three 
years service as Deputy from New Haven to the General 




THE SECOND EDIFICE. 



—27— 

Court. In his second session he became clerk of the 
House. This dignity he still enjoyed at the May session 
of 171 5. In the following month — June i6th — he was 
called hither. The First Church in New Haven was 
vacant at the same time, and Mr. Cooke became a candi- 
date for that pastorate. Another was preferred, however, 
and then he accepted this call to Stratfield, July 11. He 
began his ministry here at once, but also fulfilled the 
duties of his rectorship at New Haven until the end of 
the year. He was ordained here Feb. 14, 1716. His home 
was nearly opposite that of his predecessor in the lane 
long known by his name. He brought here his wife, and 
four children. Mrs. Cooke was Anne, the only daughter 
of John Trowbridge of New Haven, and granddaughter 
of Governor Leete. She was born July 22, 1688. The 
date of the marriage was November 30, 1708. 

About two months before Mr. Cooke's ordination, 
Richard Hubbell, Thomas Hawley and James Seeley were 
appointed a committee to consult with carpenters about 
the enlargement of the meeting-house. This was the 
beginning of a movement which ended in the building of a 
new edifice farther north, i. e., on the north-west corner of 
Park and North Avenues. This was erected in 171 7, and 
here the church worshipped for upwards of ninety years. 
It was at a later date enlarged, and a steeple built, and a 
fair representation of it is preserved. It stood until 1835. 
In the erection of this church we find there were grants of 
permission to make pews ; there was a seating committee 
appointed, to seat the worshippers "by dignity, age and 
estate." There was a " men's side," and a " women's 
side," and a gallery. These facts are suggestive, in their 
way, of the development of the social life of the commu- 
nity. 

Mr. Cooke's personal influence undoubtedly operated 
in favor of the increase of ceremony and formality. He 
seems to have been the first to ask permission to build a 
family pew. He was a man whose personal dignity was 
long remembered in the parish. He was punctilious in his 
ministerial dress — comprising a heavy curled wig, black 



—28— 

coat and small clothes, shoes with silver buckles, and 
over all a black gown or cloak. He was held in the high- 
est respect — somewhat in fear. He was a man of resolu- 
tion, often impetuous; had strong friends, and determined 
opponents. His home was thrice desolated. He com- 
plains of many sorrows and afflictions, in a note in the 
church-record. He had difficulty in his later days in 
getting his dues. His estate sued the parish for ^^3000 
arrears. He alienated a number of the principal support- 
ers of the church to such a degree that the}^ became the 
promoters of the movement which resulted in the organi- 
zation of an Episcopal church. These facts do not make 
a pleasant impression. Fie was a Fellow of the Corpora- 
tion of Yale College from 1732 to 1746, when he resigned 
to avoid being excluded. This again does not sound well. 
But to understand these things one must appreciate the 
times in which he lived, and get below the surface of the 
narrative. Mr. Cooke entered deeply into the controver- 
sies and the conflicts of an exciting period. It would have 
been strange indeed had he come out of them unscathed. 
The Saybrook Synod of 1708, comprising the leading min- 
isters, and backed by the General Court, made an honest 
endeavor to remedy evils in the condition of the Colony 
which were recognized. The state of religion in the 
churches was unsatisfactory. Morality was at a low ebb. 
The signs of the time were ominous. These excellent 
men aimed to establish an ecclesiastical constitution under 
which the churches could be more efifectually governed. 
They sought to enforce discipline and to repress disorders. 
But the churches did not take kindly to the S3'stem, and 
viewed the attempts to put it in operation with jealousy. 
Onl}' as it was in practice construed more liberally than 
its promoters had intended, did the churches finally 
acquiesce in it. Dr. Bacon says of it that for a half-cen- 
tury it made more difficulties than it healed. In the fric- 
tion between the party of order and the party of liberty, 
I imagine the sympathies of Mr. Cooke were with the lat- 
ter. They certainly were in a celebrated case. Whether 
the controversy on church-psalmody, which nearl}' rent 



—29— 

asunder some churches in this period, disturbed this one, 
I find no information. It may have done so. The issue 
was between singing by ear and singing by note. The 
latter innovation found it hard to make its way. Then, 
also, arose the excitements attending the Great Awaken- 
ing — the Revivals of 1735 and 1740 and onward. It is dif- 
ficult for us to get at the real merits of the conflicts of 
this time. When we hear of the blessed results of these 
works of grace, we are apt to wonder what arrayed 
against the promoters of them the great majority of the 
leading pastors. When we read how bitterly from the 
outset these pastors were assailed and reviled by itinerant 
ministers and lay exhorters, and what disorders and scan- 
dals often attended the Revival meetings, we wonder how 
there could have been any good in them. When we read 
the lamentations in President Edwards' letters written in 
1750, and later, over the contentions, the confusions, the 
separations, the apostacies, the prevailing declensions and 
abounding iniquity of "the unhappy time" which fol- 
lowed the Revivals, we cannot but recognize that even 
their most zealous promoters had occasion for searchings 
of heart concerning them. I have no call to speak 
minutely of these difficulties here, beyond their relation 
to Mr. Cooke. He was heart and soul with the New 
Light men; lent all his influence to promote the Revival 
measures, and by his ability, activit}' and zeal provoked 
the antagonism from which he suffered. His own preach- 
ing was fervid and pungent. How far the church increased 
under his ministry cannot be told with accuracy from his 
carelessness in keeping the records, for which he himself 
apologizes. He died December 2, 1747. He was four times 
married. His first wife died August 1 1, 1721. Hissecond 
wife was Esther, daughter of Nathaniel and Ann Burr, 
and widow of John Sloss of Fairfield. This wedding was 
May 3, 1722; and certain probate proceedings show she 
died previous to May i, 1723. He married, third, Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Joseph Piatt of Norwalk, who died May 
16, 1732, in her 31st year. His fourth wife was Abigail, 
eldest daughter of Rev. Samuel Russell of Branford, and 



—30— 

widow of Rev. Joseph Moss of Derb3^ This marriage 
took place August 6, 1733, and she survived him. He 
left four sons and two daughters, and is honorably repre- 
sented by their descendants to-day. 

Nearly two years passed before the vacant pastorate 
was filled. Then came a man best known through his 
services in quite another field. Mr. Lyman Hall was born 
in Wallingford, April 12, 1724, and graduated at Yale in 
1747. He studied theology with an uncle in Cheshire, 
and was ordained here September 27, 1749. His pas- 
torate was short. It ended, not altogether happily, June 
18, 1751. His views were not acceptable to the more 
ardent friends of Mr. Cooke, and the antagonism to him 
which was developed during his stay led to the forming, 
shortly after his dismission, of the Stratfield Baptist 
Society. So far as I know, this was the most abiding 
result of his ministry. He married the following spring, 
[May 20, 1752] Miss Abigail, daughter of Thaddeus and 
Abigail [Sturgis] Burr. She died July 8, 1753, in her 
25th year. He turned his attention to the study of medi- 
cine, was in Fairfield as late as 1757, but eventually 
removed to Georgia. Early in 1775 he took a seat in the 
Continental Congress from that Colony. He was one of 
the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and after- 
wards the first Governor of the State of Georgia. He 
died October 19, 1790, leaving a widow but no children. 
He is buried in Wallingford, and a monument commemo- 
rates him there. 

The date of his dismission, above mentioned, takes us 
just past the middle of the eighteenth centur}'. The com- 
munity had then, I judge, not far from a thousand inhabi- 
tants. It was a fair representative of the typical New 
England democracies — more self-complete than anything 
else the world knew — each with its elected magistrates, 
its school, its church, its minister of its own choosing, its 
annual town meeting ; its cherished traditions of char- 
tered rights and liberties. Connecticut had many such — 
had in all upward of a hundred and thirt}' thousand peo- 
ple. Here, as elsewhere, there were substantial men — 



—31— 

capable in business, in industry, in all manner of affairs. 
In spite of troubles with currency — with too much paper 
and too little coin — there was no little wealth and com- 
fort. And there was a growing restlessness under the 
limitations imposed upon the development of these Col- 
onies in the interest of the mother-countr}'.* The age of 
Colonial dependence was drawing to its close. Men were 
already born who would see the war of independence, 
and the American Union. 

After another interval of more than two years, a new 
pastor was elected. It indicates how generall)' the church 
had failed to sympathize with the views of Mr. Cooke 
that again they chose a man of the more conservative 
sort, but this time also a man of mark. Rev. Robert 
Ross was a native of Ireland, brought to this countrj^ in 
his infancy.f He was born in 1726. He graduated at 
Princeton College in 175 1. It is said upon his monument 
that he was subsequently a tutor there, but this the Prince- 
ton Triennial does not confirm. ;{: He was ordained here 
November 28, 1753, and spent here the rest of his days. 
About three weeks after his ordination [December 18, 
1753] he married Mrs. Sarah, widow of Samuel Hawley. 
She was a granddaughter of Capt. John Edwards, an early 
settler here. Mr. Ross's home was on North Avenue, 
where Laurel Avenue now intersects it. The house was 
taken down within my memory. 

He was definitely remembered far into the present cen- 
tury for his personal appearance, his personal qualities, 
and his force of character. In person he was fully six 
feet tall, and well proportioned. His presence was impos- 
ing, and his ruflfled shirt, wig and cocked hat, his black 
suit, knee-breeches and white-topped boots, seemed to be 
peculiarly in keeping with it. But his ardent nature, his 

* Ban. III., 464. 

f A letter to me from a venerable lady, the great-granddaughter of Parson 
Ross, received after this discourse had been delivered, confirms what is said 
above, but adds the statement that the parents were originally Scotch, that 
the mother died previous to the father's immigration, and that the latter event 
was in the boy's third year. — C. R. P. 

J He had an Honorary M. A. from Yale in 1754. 



—32— 

decisiveness, his strong and plain speaking, his impatience 
of contradiction, made him a man to be reckoned with, 
and he was among the foremost in all local affairs. He 
was a classical scholar, he was interested in education, and 
compiled text-books for schools. He was a stalwart Cal- 
vinist, and accounted a sound theologian ; he was natur- 
ally a champion of the Standing Order, and a resolute 
antagonist to the various Separatists of his day. A work 
of his is extant in which he deals with these in a style far 
more noteworthy for its vigor than for its fulness of 
charity. In a word, we recognize in the man a good deal 
of the heat and combativeness of the Celtic race. To 
this in part he owed the impulse from which resulted his 
earnest devotion to the cause of the colonies. From the 
beginning to the end of the great struggle he was among 
the warmest on the patriotic side, and proportionally 
obnoxious to those who through interest or affection were 
loyal to the British crown. He was an early and a per- 
sistent advocate of the rights of the colonists as against the 
harassing restrictions upon their development imposed 
by the British government. He was impatient of these 
restrictions and keenly alive to the wrong of them. As 
time went on, sermons and prayers revealed how absorbed 
he was in the coming struggle. At the outbreak of the 
war he preached on the text " for the divisions of Reu- 
ben there were great searchings of heart" in a way long 
remembered. We can readily imagine that such a period 
as his ministry covered — including the war which expelled 
the French from this continent, and the war for indepen- 
dence, while it made heavy demands upon the heads and 
the hearts of men; while it tested the strength of their 
convictions, their fortitude and courage, their faith and 
persistence, — was not one favorable to the development of 
spiritual religion, or of religious institutions. Well was 
it that there were stout-hearted religious leaders; well 
was it that there was prayer in the homes, in the churches, 
in the colonial assemblies and in the camps ; for if ever 
men needed the support and the inspirations of religion, 
they did in that tremendous time: but he knows little of 



—33— 

human nature who would expect to hear that churches 
throve and piety abounded when the absorbing task of 
every town and colony was the war, the desperate, all- 
but-hopeless war for independence. Churches were scat- 
tered ; churches were impoverished ; churches were made 
into barracks, or burned; it was hardly a time to see 
them filled with happy worshippers, adorned with votive 
offerings, or multiplied through works of grace. 

The history of this church in this period corresponded 
with the general trend of the time. Up to the outbreak 
of the Revolution, the community was prosperous, and 
its wealth increased. I have alluded to the renovation of 
the meeting-house, and the addition of its steeple. This 
was completed in 1771 ; and in 1774 the Society voted to 
have a bell. In the years succeeding this community was 
not wanting in the spirit of '76. In the autumn of 1775, 
we hear of the parading, at an early morning hour, of a 
company of soldiers in Mr. Ross' front yard, which, after 
his fervent prayer in their behalf, marched to join in the 
invasion of Canada. In 1776 the Stratfield company was 
engaged in the defense of New York. There is no doubt 
this was but the beginning of Stratfield's contributions to 
the long and heroic struggle ; but as it went on, and the 
heavy burdens of it increased, the prosperity in which 
the community had rejoiced and felt strong, gave place 
to adversity which tasked its courage and endurance to 
the utmost. When we read deeply into the records of 
this time, and become acquainted with the long train of 
evils which accompanied and followed upon the war, we 
wonder that anything survived the stress and the misery 
of days so unfavorable to every interest of society. The 
last ten or twenty years of Mr. Ross' ministry were for 
man}' reasons times of hardship. The diseases, the vices, 
the sufferings, the losses, the universal insolvency, the 
impoverishment, the social disorders, which came with 
the war, or were entailed by it, gave reason for the say- 
ing of a recent historian that with the end of the war the 
worst troubles of the colonists commenced. The diffi- 
culties, the depressions, the straits of the church must 
3 



—34— 

have tasked even so ardent and zealous a man as Mr. Ross. 

He had his domestic sorrows also. His first-born son, 
when a child, was drowned in his father's well. Mrs. 
Ross died October lo, 1772. She left a daughter, also 
Sarah, who has descendants now living. Mr. Ross mar- 
ried, second, Eulilia, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth 
(Williams) Bartram, of Fairfield. She was born June 24, 
1737. She made herself greatly beloved, and died, much 
lamented, December 5, 17.85, after several months' illness. 
Mr. Ross married again, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Jona- 
than Merrick, of North Branford. She survived him 
about twenty-four hours. He resigned his charge April 
30, 1796, and died August 29, 1799. He is described on 
his monument as "a person who long sustained a high 
character for Christian literature, and general knowledge. 
In his principles orthodox ; in his preaching, practical 
and judicious. He advocated the truths of the Gospel 
by doctrine and example, and was therefore a pious guide 
and instructor." I must confess to not a little tenderness 
toward the memory of "Parson Ross," who for more 
than forty-two years, against many discouragements, held 
up the standard here, and left behind him so honorable a 
reputation. 

It is part of the ecclesiastical history of the latter part 
of his ministry that in it began what is now the First 
Methodist Church of our city. The first preacher of 
Methodism to come here was the Rev. William Black, in 
1784. He preached several times in the Congregational 
Church, and was heard with favor, but at length offended 
Mr. Ross' Calvinistic convictions, and, as the story goes, 
was by him somewhat vehemently denounced. From 
this time, however, there seem to have been those who 
were favorable to his doctrine, and who were accustomed 
to gather in private houses. On September 26, 1789, 
the first Methodist society in New England was organized 
by Rev. Jesse Lee, in a house on the west side of the 
Toilsome Hill road. It was a class consisting of three 
good women, and this proved the nucleus of the church 
we have since known so well. 1 do not suppose Parson 



—35— 

Ross approved this new conventicle in his parish, but 
that has not prevented our living on the best of terms 
with our Methodist brethren, and rejoicing in their pros- 
perity. The seedling he would have suppressed became 
a tree of great fruitfulness. 

A single incident of the church life during Mr. Ross's 
ministry, although often described, was too remarkable 
and too tragic to be passed over here. On the 28th July, 
1771, the congregation assembled for worship at the usual 
morning hour. A storm was gathering, but the service 
proceeded. The storm proved to be one of appalling 
severity. The church grew dark, until the form of the 
minister was hardly visible, as he stood in the exercise 
of prayer. Suddenly a dazzling flash of lightning filled 
the house, made more terrific by the crash of thunder 
which followed instantaneously. The voice of the minis- 
ter broke the awful stillness which ensued, with the ques- 
tion, "■ Are we all here?" It was found that two of the 
best men of the community, David Sherman and Captain 
John Burr, who had come to church in the fulness of 
vigorous life, had been struck dead, and several others 
had been injured. The impression made by this painful 
occurrence was profound and lasting. 

The mention of these excellent men reminds me that 
there were man}^ noteworthy laymen in the first century 
of this church's existence, whom, did time permit, it would 
be interesting to commemorate. Richard Hubbell, the 
third of the name, was born in the year 1695. He lived 
until 1788, and at his death had been deacon for fifty 
)'ears. His house is still standing, although it has been 
moved. John Cooke, the son of Rev. Samuel Cooke, 
born in 1715, lived until the end of 1813. Lieut. Benjamin 
Fayerweather, born in 1717, lived until 1791, and was a 
substantial citizen. Capt. Stephen Burroughs, born in 
1730, lived to 1818, and was a man of distinguished attain- 
ments in mathematics and other sciences. He is said to 
have been the inventor of Federal money. He was an 
ardent patriot, and raised and commanded a company 
called the " Householders," of those exempt from mill- 



-36- 

tary service. Capt. William Wordin, born in 1733, lived 
until iSoS. He was another ardent patriot, and in his 
turn commanded the " Householders." He was a tall, 
spare, indefatigable man, and took a leading part in the 
parish affairs. Capt. Abijah Sterling, born 1745, lived 
until 1802, and left the impression of a strong personalit3\ 
He was described as " one of Nature's noblemen." He 
was captain in the militia, and a justice of the peace ; a 
man of great sagacit}-, acuteness, and strong moral sense. 
He was the umpire in all disputes, the general pacificator. 
Dea. Abel Seelye (1725-1810), and Dea. Seth Seelye (1738- 
1817) also deserve mention, and others as well. These 
were men who, in the times that tried men's souls, stood 
the fiery test and lived to tell the story. Nearly all of 
them lived to see the slow process of the recuperation of 
the communit}' and of the church, and to see the great 
change which the former underwent. After the Revolu- 
tion, the trade and commerce which the mother country 
had done her utmost to prevent, began to be of import- 
ance. The little collection of houses and stores which 
had acquired the name of Newfield, to the eastward, and 
in the vicinity of the intersection of Main and State 
streets, gradually increased and became in due time the 
nucleus of the future town of Bridgeport, in which the 
individuality of the rural parish of Stratfield was even- 
tually lost. It is an indication of the progress of this 
change that the home of the next minister was not on 
North Avenue but where is now 644 Main street. 

This was the Rev. Samuel Blatchford. He was the 
eldest son of Henry and Mary (Heath) Blatchford, and 
born in Devonport, Devonshire, England, in the year 
1767, and grew up there. The fate of prisoners of war in 
British hands during the Revolution was as a rule very 
hard. They were often herded in prison ships and 
treated with great inhumanity. Vast numbers of them 
perished. Those who weretaken to England fared little 
better at the hands of officials, but sometimes experienced 
kindness from English people. Not very far from the 
early home of Mr. Blatchford was one of the prisons 



—37— 

where American prisoners were confined, and his parents 
were interested in their behalf. When a lad he was 
employed in conveying to sufferers the means of relief. 
The sympathies thus awakened occasioned in him an 
early resolution to come to this country. That resolu- 
tion gave to the United States a useful citizen and the 
founder of a distinguished family. But it was not at once 
carried out. He was educated in England. He was sent 
to a school at Willington in Somersetshire, and thence to 
Homerton College near London. After completing his 
studies he was employed as an assistant minister, and sub- 
sequentl)' ordained pastor at Kingsbridge near Dartmouth. 
His ordination was in November, 1789. He married, 
March 25, 1788, Alicia, daughter of Thomas Windeatt, 
Esq., of Bridgetown-Totwas, a woman admirably fitted 
to her station, and, happily, spared to him to the end of 
his life.* In 1791 he removed to Topsham, near Exeter, 
and thence, in 1795, executed his long-cherished purpose 
of emigration. He arrived in New York August i. He 
preached first in Bedford, N. Y. ; then for a year at 
Greenfield Hill, succeeding President Dvvight. In Feb- 
ruary, 1797, he was invited to preach here for six 
months, with a view to settlement. He accepted and 
was installed November 22 of the same year. His salary 
being inadequate, he eked it out by teaching an academy 
for boys. I imagine he had rather a hard time here, but 
he commanded the respect of the community. Unfamiliar 
with American life, scantily supported, burdened with 
care and with work in his double duties, he could hardl)'' 
do justice to himself. But his labors were of great ser- 
vice to the church, and only too soon terminated. He 
resigned March 20, 1804, to accept a call to the Presbyte- 
rian Church in Lansingburgh, where he continued until 
his death, March 17, 1828. He was honored with the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1808 by Williams College. 
He was an able, an excellent and, in his later years, a 
prominent man. As a preacher he was instructive in 

* She died December 2, 1846. 



-38- 

matter, unaffected and impressive in manner. He was 
well read in theology and decided in his convictions. He 
was social in his disposition, noted for his hospitality, and 
generous in his sympathies. He retained his interest in 
the education of young men, and was responsive to all 
benevolent enterprises. He was the father of seventeen 
children, of whom ten survived him. I need only men- 
tion in this connection his son John, who a generation 
later succeeded him ; another son, the Hon. R. M. Blatch- 
ford, the friend and executor of Daniel Webster, whose 
splendid services to his country as a jurist, a financier, a 
commissioner of great trusts, and a representative abroad, 
are not forgotten ; and the late Hon. Samuel Blatchford, 
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 
the son of the last-named — to remind you how rich was 
the gift this parish received in its fifth pastor. 
• In this seven years' pastorate a number were added to 
.the church, and a movement was successfully inaugurated 
to build a new church edifice. It was time to do this — 
and time to remove the center of the church life from the 
old site at the Four Corners into the midst of the new and 
rapidly increasing village by the harbor. But it was not 
altogether an easy thing to do. Those long accustomed 
to worship in the old church clung to it, and very reluc- 
tantly yielded to a necessity which from our point of 
view seems obvious enough. The transition took place 
under the ministry of Rev. Elijah Waterman. He was 
the great restorer and second founder of this church, in 
the Providence of God, and he is commemorated here 
opposite to Mr. Chauncey. He was happy in his opportu- 
nity, and nobly used it. He was born in Bozi-ah, Conn., 
November 28, 1769.* He graduated at Yale in 1791, with 
creditable rank. He betook himself to teaching, intending 
ultimately to study law, but changed his purpose, and in 
1792 became a student with Dr. Dwight at Greenfield 
Hill, and afterward with Dr. Jonathan Edwards of New 

* He was the son of Nehemiah and Susannah (Isham) Waterman. The 
father was a magistrate, and an active patriot during the Revolutionary 
war. 




THE THIRD EDIFICE. 



—39— 

Haven. In April, 1794, he went to Windham to preach 
as a candidate, and in October following was ordained 
there, and fulfilled a pastorate of ten years. He mar- 
ried November 18. 1795, Lucy, daughter of Shubael 
Abbe of Windham. She was born in that town May 
21, 1778. She died here, greatly lamented, March 17, 
1822, in her 44th year. In October, 1823, he married 
a second time, Mrs. Lucy Talcott, of Springfield, who 
survived him. Mr. Waterman's ministry in Windham 
was terminated in February, 1805. He was installed 
here January i, 1806, and his pastorate ended only with 
his life. Very soon it was evident that a new era in 
the history of the church had begun. Locally it was 
the era of a transformation. The borough of Bridge- 
port was incorporated in 1800, with two hundred and 
fifty inhabitants, Its rapid growth gradually absorbed 
the life of the more ancient settlement. The future town, 
therefore, was taking on its proportions during this pas- 
torate. It was incorporated in 1821. Parallel to this 
development was that of the church. August 6, 1806, it 
underwent a reorganization. The Half-way Covenant 
was definitely abandoned. A new confession of faith and 
covenant, and a code of standing rules, were adopted. In 
1807 the new church edifice was completed, built by sub- 
scription on the site at present occupied. At first it was 
used two Sundays out of three, but after a short interval 
exclusively. In 1814 a Sunday School was organized by 
Mr. Piatt Benedict, the first in town. It enlisted the 
pastor's sympathies and was ultimately taken under the 
care of the church, a supervisory committee being 
appointed. In April, 1821, the church purchased the 
land where the chapel stands, for a conference room and 
academy. A building was erected to answer both pur- 
poses, and was occupied as a conference room July 5, 1821. 
The title of academy had reference to the fact that Mr. 
Waterman was deeply interested in the education of 
young men. He more or less definitely projected a theo- 
logical school. He did instruct a number of candidates 
for the ministry. This local and external development 
was only part of the interest of this pastorate. It covered 



—40— 

a wonderful period. As many will remember, it was the 
time of the Evangelical Revival, the fruitage of which 
was so extensive, not ahjne in Christian homes and 
churches, but in the formation of the great beneficent 
organizations such as the American Board, the American 
Bible Society, and others. It saw the beginnings of the 
temperance reform in this state, in the action of the 
General Association in 1S12. I need only remind 3'ou, 
moreover, that in the midst of it came the second war 
with Great Britain — a time of peril, of hardship, of 
impoverishment, in which all foundations were shaken, 
but out of which the country emerged without serious 
disaster. Afterward came the great contest which ended 
in the disestablishment of the Congregational churches 
of Connecticut — the overthrow of the Standing Order, as 
the phrase of the day had it. This event, in the time of it, 
seemed to many excellent men the triumph of the gates 
of hell over the Kingdom ; but some of them at least lived 
to perceive that it was indeed what Dr. Lyman Beecher 
called it, "the best thing that ever happened to the Con- 
necticut churches," their emancipation from civil control. 
I need only add that Mr. Waterman's ministry covered 
also the development of the Unitarian controversy. It is 
to be said to his credit that in all the excitements of this 
eventful period he commended himself to this church as 
a wise and trustworthy' leader, and an effective helper of 
all that was good. He was a moderate Calvinist, and 
in the movements of his time S3'mpathized decidedly with 
the progressive side. But he was a man of good sense and 
of tact. He kept his hold of men of different modes of 
thinking, and antagonized none of them. As a pastor, he 
was laborious and faithful ; asa preacher, he was effective 
and acceptable. His style was perspicuous ; his thinking 
was vigorous, and his manner was animated and earnest. 
His ministry as a whole was a successful one. The cur- 
rent of the church life flowed full and strong. Commenc- 
ing with forty-seven church members, all told, he saw 
rapid increase almost from the first. The whole number 
added in his less than twenty years pastorate was about 



—41— 

three hundred and sixt}'. In the autumn of 1825, while 
on a visit to Springfield, he was taken with typhus fever, 
and died there October 11, in his 56th year. The church 
sent a committee to bring hither his remains for inter- 
ment, and thus ended his useful and honored ministr}'. 
He built and occupied the first house on Golden Hill, the 
one next west of the present parsonage. He was the 
originator of the first water-works in the town. He was 
a man of medium stature; very well built, and having 
the appearance of great physical strength ; and was a man 
of more than usual weight and influence. His counten- 
ance was amiable and intelligent, his movements quick 
and natural, his habits active. He had a high spirit, 
showed a keen sense of favors or injuries, and was liable 
to sudden flashes of temper. But he was placable, and 
soon recovered his self-control. He left behind him the 
reputation of a good citizen, and an exemplary Christian. 
The church venerates his memory, and his family is still 
represented in its membership. 

In the settlement of a successor to this excellent pastor, 
in the year following his death, some difference of views 
seems to have arisen; while it had no immediate results 
that were serious, it ripened into something quite positive 
a few years later. Prominent before the people as candi- 
dates were the Rev. Thomas T. Waterman and the Rev. 
Franklin Y. Vail. The former was a son of the late pas- 
tor, who since his fifth year had grown up in the parish. 
He had graduated at Yale in 1822 and then pursued his 
theological studies with his father, and was a young man 
of promise. He was a warm-hearted and earnest preacher, 
and had a useful ministry. He had strong friends here, 
and his claims were vigorously pressed. But for some 
reason the movement in his favor did not succeed and 
the choice fell upon Mr. Vail. The selection, however, 
seems to have been determined less b}' positive interest 
in him than b}' opposition to Mr. Waterman. He did not 
take a strong hold of the church, nor did he long retain 
his position. 



—42— 

He was born in Easthampton, Long Island, in 1797; 
entered Yale but did not graduate ; studied theology in 
New York, and this was his first charge. He was ordained 
October 4, 1826, and his brief pastorate ended July 8, 
1828. He was a man of small stature, of slender person, 
of amiable character. His home was on Water street just 
north of Clinton street, in a house now taken down. 
Neither his health nor his tastes fitted him for the work 
of a pastor, but he subsequently proved himself admira- 
bly adapted to work of another kind in which he was sin- 
gularly successful. This was the raising of funds for 
beneficent purposes, in which he was engaged for nearly 
forty years. He was for man}' years the General Agent 
of the American Tract Society, which very highly appre- 
ciated his services. Later he was the principal agent in 
founding and endowing Lane Theological Seminary and 
the Ohio Female College. He died in Cincinnati, June 
23, 1868. His wife was Catharine Matilda, daughter of 
Daniel Hawley. 

It was more than two years and a half ere another pas- 
tor was installed in the First Church, and in that interval 
events occurred which resulted in the formation of the 
Second, or South, Church, and hence my history of the 
undivided church draws to an end. These events were 
accompanied by a good deal of feeling in the time of them, 
but from this distance we can speak of them dispassion- 
ately. I said a little while since that the movement to call 
Mr. T. T. Waterman was successfully opposed. It was the 
more conservative element of the church to whom he 
failed to commend himself, and their experience in the 
pastorate of Mr. Vail had strengthened those of an oppo- 
site tendency. It was a time of excitement in the theo- 
logical world. The Unitarian defection in Massachusetts 
had no counterpart in Connecticut, but the fact of it 
awakened an uneasiness in our churches which rendered 
them abnormally susceptible to fears of erroneous teach- 
ing. Moreover, the controversies were already active 
which resulted in a second Divinity' School in Connecti- 
cut; in the disruption of the Presbyterian Church in this 



—43— 

country, and very likely would have disrupted the body 
of Congregational churches had there been any such body 
to disrupt. Good men honestly differed and honestly mis- 
trusted the tendency of their opponents' opinions. In this 
sensitive condition of things it is not to be wondered at 
that a decided difference of sentiment arose here. We 
can speak of it without implying that anybody was blame- 
worthy, especially as now nobody will claim there ever 
has been any real difference in the theological position of 
these two churches. When, in the autumn of 1828, the 
minds of the Society were directed to Mr. John Blatch- 
ford, the more conservative party in the church were not 
disposed to unite in calling him. In January, 1829, the 
church proved to be almost equally divided upon the ques- 
tion of calling him, and the call, issued by a majority of four 
only, he very promptly declined. It proved impossible 
to harmonize the antagonistic elements after this disturb- 
ance, and at length, December 28, 1829, a division of the 
church was resolved upon. January 24, 1830, three deacons, 
thirty-six other male members and seventy-eight female 
members were dismissed at their own request, to form the 
Second Church, the old church giving them one-half the 
church property and funds, and also contributing two 
thousand dollars toward the erection of a church edifice. 
The dissension between Paul and Barnabas resulted in the 
doubling of the missionary forces of the early Christian 
church. The division of the First Church, however 
regrettable it seemed, no doubt was overruled to the 
increase of the forces of the Kingdom in this growing 
community. The very honorable history of the Second 
Church bears witness that the good men who founded it, 
even if they were needlessly alarmed as to the tendency of 
the First Church, were men whose faith, whose loyalty to 
their convictions, whose prayers and sacrifices led them to 
accomplish a good work for Christ and His Gospel, in 
which both churches have reason to rejoice. It is with 
eminent fitness, however, that both have clasped hands 
to-day in commemorating the one hundred and thirty-five 
years' history which is their common inheritance. The 



—44— 

separate history of this church since 1S30 I shall pursue 
on another occasion.* 

In concluding this review there has come into my 
thoughts a passage in one of Dean Stanle3''s Sermons at 
St. Andrew's. It is in the sermon on "Succession in 
Spiritual Life." It runs as follows : " The weary traveler 
in the south of Spain who, after passing many an arid 
plain and many a bare hill, finds himself at nightfall under 
the heights of Granada, will hear rushing and rippling 
under the shade of the spreading trees, and along the 
side of the dusty road, the grateful murmur of running 
waters, of streamlets whose sweet music mingles with 
his dreams as he sleeps, and meets his ear as the first 
pleasant voice in the stillness of the early dawn. What 
is it? It is the sound of the irrigating rivulets called into 
existence by the Moorish occupants of Granada five cen- 
turies ago, which amidst all the changes of race and 
religion have never ceased to flow. Their empire has 
fallen ; their creed has been suppressed by fire and sword; 
their nation has been driven from the shores of Spain; 
their palaces crumble into ruins; but the trace of their 
beneficent civilization still continues, and in this contin- 
uity that which was good and wise and generous in that 
gifted but unhappy race still lives on, to cheer and to 
refresh their enemies and conquerors. Even so it is with 
the good deeds of those who have gone before tis. What- 
ever there has been of grateful consideration, of kindly 
hospitality, of far-reaching generosity, of gracious charity, 
of high-minded justice, of unselfish devotion, of saintly 
devotion — these still feed the stream of moral fertiliza- 
tion, which will run on when their place knows them no 
more, when even their names have perished." 

Friends, it is not necessary to claim that our fathers 
and predecessors on this soil were in all things wise, or 
that their religious leaders were faultless men, in order 
to point to them as in many ways our benefactors. Their 
toils, their struggles, their sacrifices, their prayers, their 
counsels, their faith, their patience, entered into the long 

* See p. 142. 



—45— 

process through which this community has become what 
it is, and have had their results in the material, the moral, 
the intellectual, the spiritual well-being which we recog- 
nize in our heritage to-day. " The good men do lives after 
them; the z7/ is oft interred with their bones." Honor 
to the men who planted the school and the church in the 
parish of Stratfield ! Instead of their one church we see 
nearly fifty ; instead of their one school a vast system ; 
instead of their little hamlet this expanding city ! Who 
will hesitate to believe that whatever there is in this 
grand evolution which is excellent or hopeful, is in some 
measure indebted to the beneficent influences by them 
set in motion two hundred years ago ; or that those 
influences in their effects are still flowing, and will con- 
tinue to flow perennially forever and forever more ! 

Dr. Palmer: Let us unite in singing, and afterwards I 
beg you to wait awhile till the photographs are taken. 
Let us unite in singing the 1312th hymn — 

" Oh God, beneath Thy guiding hand 
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea." 

Let us sing to the tune of Duke Street. 

(At the conclusion of the singing, a view of the northerly 
portion of the church was taken by the photographer, 
chemicals being ignited which produced an instantaneous 
illumination.) 

Dr. Palmer : While they are arranging for the other 
picture I want to sa}', having had occasion to refer to 
those churches that early went out from this, that this 
evening we are going to give those churches an opportu- 
nity to talk back. Our friends who represent those 
churches will speak to us to-night, I am anticipating, in 
such a manner as to be pleasing and profitable. Services 
commence at a quarter to eight. 

To-morrow, the great day, the services will commence 
at 10 o'clock. We shall assemble, as the fathers were 
wont to assemble, by beat of drum. We shall have a full 
programme and shall be addressed b_v gentlemen who are 



-46- 

well qualified to interest us in their commemorative 
addresses. We are especially happy in the presence of 
the Hon. E. W. Blatchford of Chicago, Illinois, who has 
come all the way from that city, in the midst of his busy 
life, that he might speak of the memories of his father and 
grandfather, and join in these festivities. 

Respecting the plate before us, I must say that the cup 
that has been longest in the possession of the church was 
a gift to it in 1713. The donor was Matthew Sherwood, 
Jr. The other cup was a bequest to it at a later date, 
but is an older cup, having been brought here by a 
pioneer from England. Captain John Edwards, before 
1700. The tankard was a gift of Richard Hubbell, and 
bears date a little later. They are the oldest pieces we 
have. I mention this because it may interest some to see 
them. 

(The apparatus being arranged, a photograph was in 
like manner taken of the southerly portion of the church 
and the audience present.) 

Dr. Palmer : My friends, )'0u will be dismissed with 
the benediction. I thank you for quietly remaining. 

" The love of God the Father, the grace of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with 
all forever. Amen." 



SERVICES OF 

WEDNESDAY EVENING. 

Organ Prelude. 

Anthem, "Great is the Lord." 

Pr.wer, 

By Rev. H. C. WOODRUFF, of Black Rock. 

We invoke Tliy presence and benediction, O Lord Our 
Heavenly Father, as we gather here this evening in this ser- 
vice of commemoration of the two hundred years of the life of 
this Church. We praise Thy name for all the memories of the 
hour, for the two centuries of Christian life and labor whose 
experiences crowd upon our thoughts, for the work and wor- 
ship which have transpired within these walls dedicated to Thy 
praise. And we gather to-night especially to commemorate 
those who in the course of these years have gone forth from 
us to form new church homes for themselves. May they not 
feel that they have gone out from us because they were not of 
us, but may they rather realize that they are but members with 
us of that One family of which God is the Father and Christ 
the elder Brother. May they realize that we have a common 
Master and faith and life ! And may their separation bring to 
them only a clearer and wider vision and a fuller experience 
of the Divine character and grace, and may they return to 
enrich us with the wealth of that which they have seen and 
experienced. 

May this not be a period for retrospect alone. May our 
vision of the past make us also to look forward. May our 
memory be also an inspiration. And as we rejoice and are 



-48- 

glad because of that which in the past Tliy servants have been 
able to do, may we who are their successors address ourselves, 
with hope and courage and enthusiasm begotten of our expe- 
rience, to the solution of those problems and the performance 
of those tasks which still await us. 

We ask it in the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior, 
and we would give all the glory to the Father, Son and Holy 
Spirit. Amen. 



WELCOME TO INVITED GUESTS. 

By Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, D.D. 

On the part of the First Church and Society of Bridge- 
port and the Committee of Arrangements, I heartil}' greet 
all who have assembled with us on this happy anniver- 
sary. It is delightful to see the old friends who have for 
the occasion returned to us, the kind neighbors and fellow 
citizens who enter into our joy, and those from every side 
who have lent us the encouragement of their presence 
and sympathy; and it is my special pleasure and duty 
this evening to welcome here the representatives of the 
Churches of the different communions who share with us 
the dignity of this occasion and who are of common 
descent from the old Stratfield parish, while no longer 
connected with it. The founders of St. John's parish, the 
founders of the original Baptist Church of this vicinity, 
the first nucleus of the oldest Methodist Church of our 
city, were originally members of the old Stratfield parish ; 
they and their parents were most of them communicants 
in this church; some of the founders of the First Presby- 
terian Church also were baptized and brought up in this 
church. In celebrating the beginnings, their children 
have the same right here which we have ourselves. To 
my thought, the early history with all its treasured mem- 
ories is the common heritage of the people of Bridgeport, 
and especially of the churches of Bridgeport. Brethren, 
although your fathers may have left the old church for 
conscience sake and 3'ou have churches organized to fur- 



—49— 

ther convictions and preferences which the old church does 
not altogether share, she to-night accords to you the full- 
est Christian fellowship ; joyfully welcomes you to the old 
hearthstone, and rejoices that each of you in your own way 
is serving with us the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Side by side we testify and toil that in the future this 
fair city of ours may be an orderly, an enlightened, a 
sanctified society ; and so fulfill the aspirations with 
which our fathers began it. Thankful for your presence 
here, we shall be glad of any words of greeting with which 
you may favor us, but remember you are not strangers 
here but at home in this old household of faith. 

Now, friends, we wish next to sing the 97th hymn, and 
we propose to sing it as the fathers used to sing. The 
minister will line out the hymn, and you will follow him. 
The organist will play the first line over to give us the 
pitch, then I will read the line and you will sing it, and 
so on with each line ; but understand you are to come in 
very promptly at the beginning. 

(The audience rose and Dr. Palmer lined the hymn, in 
the singing of which to " Old Hundred " all joined.) 

Dr. Palmer: The first church organization which 
originated within the teritory of the old parish, of those 
who preferred to worship in some other way than this 
church did, was St. John's. We are favored with the 
presence of the rector of that parish, and we will listen 
to him, Rev. William H. Lewis. 

The Rev. Mr. Lewis said : 

Dear brother and brothers of the household of faith, I 
think your pastor made a mistake when he began to-night 
by saying that these other ecclesiastical bodies within the 
limits of this city had broken away from the ties which 
interested you. I am sure it is not so, for as every one 
well knows who knows what the history of such a com- 
munity as this is, who has traced its windings back and 
forth among the multitude of families which come in to 
make it up, every one knows that the lines of relation, the 
lines of interest weave themselves back and forth continu- 
4 



— so— 

ally among the families of a place like this so that it is 
impossible except by death — and we do not recognize 
death except as an accident of life — to sever those rela- 
tions ; and in proof of this I will state a fact which is not 
perhaps known to all present here, namely, that one of 
those venerable vessels which lies on the table was given 
to this parish by an ancestor of my wife, and bears his 
name. And so 1 say we are glad to come here to-night — I 
am individually, having as a friend one worth having, your 
pastor, and as one interested in everything that concerns 
the religious life of this community, to come both individ- 
ually and representatively and bring you my cordial 
greetings on this your two hundredth birthday ; and when 
T was casting over in my mind what to say, the beautiful 
quotation with which your pastor closed his address 
occurred to me — I believe from Canon Farrar, — and 
instinctively I laid my hands on a little relic which has 
lain for some time on the mantelpiece in my study and I 
said " I will bring that." Our birthday is a birthday in a 
sense in the I'Cingdom of Great Britain, for that is a piece 
of an old Roman brick taken out of the wall of St. Mar- 
tin's Church in Canterbury, whose history — you remem- 
ber — Canon Farrar and other authorities in the Church of 
England have traced out to the last part of the first cen- 
tury ; so that little edifice, with its walls built of Roman 
brick, of one of which this is a part, commemorates the 
beginning of the church, which I think Canon Farrar says 
was founded in the year 87, the records of which show 
that almost continuously, except through the vissicitudes of 
war in the kingdom, it has been open as a place of wor- 
ship, and I had the pleasure three 3'ears ago of being 
taken into that venerable little building — for it will not 
cover one-quarter of the ground this church covers — and 
there standing on the very stone on which St. Augustine 
stood when in the year 597 he preached his first sermon 
to the Saxons. In front of me was the famous Saxon font ; 
by the side of me was the tomb of Queen Bertha, in which 
her remains still rest, and on the left was a curious open- 
ing in the wall, known as the " Leper's Squint," some- 



—51— 

thing like a slit made in the wall through which those 
diseased and unfortunate people could look and see the 
praise and prayer and the sacrifice at the altar while 
not permitted to join the congregation. Such a bit 
of old material as that makes us all understand that 
age is relative. When we come to celebrate the two 
hundredth birthday of an ecclesiastical body and have 
present a memento from the eighteen hundredth birth- 
day of an ecclesiastical body, we feel like children 
indeed; and yet on the other hand, when we come to 
measure the life of this body with the life of the com- 
munity in which it has found its home, we feel venerable 
indeed — and so age is relative. As we look backward we 
see those older and older and older till memory ceases to 
work. As we look forward we see the great end to which 
we are all moving, and as God marks off our term of use- 
fulness there is an age of light, and within that limit 
comes the counting of the birthdays, and we may, if we 
are working for Him and his Son's Kingdom, count every 
one which He gives us as a blessing direct from Him. I 
am sure that this old body of yours is venerable in the 
memories and minds and thoughts of all here gathered 
to-night, associated with a host of holy associations. It is 
no little thing that for even two hundred years there has 
been a body of Christian people standing up — whatever 
their mode of worship I care not; whatever their eccle- 
siastical organization may be I care not — we take this 
body of men and women whose lives are sacrificed to 
Almight)^ God, whose mission is to fight against the 
sin in the world, whose hope is in life everlasting, whose 
one name is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose 
one desire in the world is to win souls for Christ and 
to follow in the example and footsteps of His most 
Holy life, — I say it is a thing to be proud of that for 
two hundred years this ecclesiastical body has stood 
for that in the community, and in the changes and 
chances and shifting and disappearings and reappear- 
ings of the life of this community there has been 
here represented a steady, wholesome, hearty influence 



— 52— 

for God and righteousness. I am proud to stand under 
that banner to-night, and I can stand and feel in my 
heart of hearts — as you have tried through your authori- 
ties here to gather up and bind together during these two 
days all those holy associations — I am proud to go back 
through the history of this church and see for what this 
church stood, what it has tried to do, what it has repre- 
sented here ; and then your duty is only half done, for 
there is no use whatever in any such commemoration as 
this if it does not bring with it an inspiration for the future ; 
and if all of your preparations that have involved so much 
trouble and research shall count for nothmg in the days 
to come except that you shall go right on the same old 
pathway and effort to improve, then you better not have 
celebrated — you should accomplish more in the future; 
but I am sure no such spirit lies here, that no such spirit 
will receive countenance here. 

We are told by those who know that the two great 
signs of this last decade of the century are, first, a 
decided revival of religious feeling, a decided bent of the 
public mind towards religious research and religious 
truth. It is a most happy sign. I think it is Bryce, the 
author of the American Commonwealth, who says that 
sign is to be particular!}' distinguished among the Amer- 
ican people and that they are known among scholars and 
are known among the nations as looking at the world 
from the standpoint of God and the people. I am sure if 
that is so that this church and every other church has its 
work laid out for it. And the second sign which he finds 
is the growing desire among all bodies of Christians for 
a true unity, and, dear friends, I venture to hope that from 
the exercises of these days there will come an impulse in 
the direction of the fulfillment of that desire. 

Dr. Palmer : It is with great pleasure that we receive 
here to-night a representative of a body of Christians 
who went out from us nearly one hundred and forty-five 
years ago. We rejoice that for our part we have always 
dwelt with them in true fellowship, and it is a great satis- 



—53— 

faction so to receive them on this occasion. We will now 
hear from the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Rev. 
George W. Nicholson. 

The Rev. Mr. Nicholson's remarks follow : 
My Dear Doctor, sisters and brethren in the Lord, it is 
with great pleasure that I can return the compliment to 
the doctor and his people, and say that the Baptist Church 
has been in sympathy with him and the work for the 
Lord by every name in Bridgeport. I came down this 
afternoon to get acquainted with my mother (laughter). 
I was very glad to find, notwithstanding she was aged, 
that she was quite a fine-looking old lady, and it was with 
a great deal of pleasure that I formed her acquaintance 
through the historical discourse of Dr. Palmer. I once 
saw a group of five generations ; it was a most beautiful 
picture ; it has lingered with me ever since, and I can 
to-night, as I stand before you, bring before my mind the 
picture of that great-great-grandmother sitting opposite 
that great-great-grandchild with as much pleasure and 
delight as if it were her own child and she a mother of 
twenty years. The old lady was still fresh and full of vigor 
and full of interest in the affairs of to-day. I am delighted 
to be one of a group of more than five generations, to 
come and sit at the feet of her who bore us and gaze and 
admire and seek to learn, that we might imitate her good 
qualities, which are so evidently rich in themselves and 
numerous in their quantity. We congratulate you on 
reaching such an age so sweetly, so lovingly, so vigor- 
ously. It is one thing to grow old and quite another thing 
to grow old gracefully, and I congratulate you to-night, 
my beloved, that you have grown old so gracefully and 
that you show your grace in the figure and symmetry of 
your form. We congratulate you on rearing so fine and 
intelligent and numerous a family of children. I think I 
can say this without blush or hesitation. It so happens 
that I am only an adopted child, and for this reason I feel 
that I can the more freely and heartily congratulate you on 
rearing such a really magnificent family as is represented 
in this house this evening. Though some of the children 



—54— 

have independently chosen another way in some particu- 
lars from that taught by the mother — it is only natural at 
some times for the children to be a little naughty and a 
little independent and want to have their own way — she 
may regard them with pride in that we have tried to bring 
no dishonor upon the mother, we have tried to do the 
best we could in our way and not to hinder her in her 
way ; and we come to assure you that though our ways 
have diverged a little we come around once in a while 
where we can look each other in the face, and as we do 
so we can see some features of resemblance and mutual 
recognition when we meet at the cross of the blessed 
Lord and Master from whence we have all derived our 
spirit and life and cheer and favor. I personally have 
shown my appreciation of one of the daughters of the 
church by linking my interests with hers, and I feel 
happy to assure you that I have had no cause for regret 
since the First Baptist Church and myself were married, 
nor have I any disposition to seek for divorce from her. 
We are glad that the opportunities are ours of calling 
upon our mother, especially as we find her in such good 
health and spirit and vigor, and our prayer is that she 
may be long spared to adorn the homestead and give 
pleasure to her numerous progeny all over this section 
of country. Some one has said we have millions of stars 
in the skies, millions of drops of water in the ocean and 
myriads of mountains on the earth's surface, but we have 
only one mother. How true ! How glad we are to have 
her with us! How we dislike and regret the time of her 
departure when it comes in some of our homes! We feel 
we would hold her longer though age and infirmity were 
hers, and it is a matter of delight and great comfort when 
we feel we have our mother with us. So I rejoice with 
the daughter whom I represent to-night that we have our 
mother with us. What is home without a mother? We 
look with pride and delight upon the First Congregational 
Church as the mother of the following of Jesus Christ in 
Bridgeport, especially as we have our birth and name so 
closely connected with the free spirit of our country. It 



—55— 

was a matter of information, and of very joyful informa- 
tion this afternoon when Dr. Palmer told us that a man 
who was pastor of this church was one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence. We believe in fore-ordina- 
tion. Was there anything in this fact? If there is any- 
thing for which we have lived and labored and bled and 
sufTered and died, it is religious liberty, and I thank God 
that we can come to-day after these years, representing so 
large a constituency of the country, and declare to you that 
religious liberty is still permanently ours as one of the 
bulwarks behind which we have lived and labored and for 
which we are willing to suflTeranddie in the days to come. 

We congratulate you for 3-our continued adherence to 
the old gospel, that though you had one contest between 
the ear and note, as we heard this afternoon, the contest 
between the ear and the Gospel has been successful, as it 
was between the ear and note ; that you have not been 
allured from the old foundation by any of the sounds in 
the air, nor strained by the spirit of the world or rent 
asunder by the higher criticism or new theology ; but like 
a rock in the weary land, a refuge in the time of storm for 
these two hundred years, through clouds as well as sun- 
shine, through contests as well as conquests, you have 
stood firm, you have held out the signal of peace to the 
living, and held up the living Christ to the sorrowing and 
sick. One of the sublime mysteries of the day is the 
influence of the Christian church on the community in 
which it is planted. Estimating what you have done 
during these two hundred years for this section of our 
country by dates or figures or statistics can never pos- 
sibly measure or reveal its extent; they are rather only 
like rifts in the clouds, through which you may glance 
at the immense labors you have performed and the 
success you have secured and the greater success be)'ond 
m triumphs for the Lord. 

An island in the sea seems like an isolated field to an 
unknown voyager, but not to the old sailor. He looks at 
it with a different eye. He knows that beneath the sur- 
face of the water its roots are to be found piercing and 



-S6- 

penetrating in all directions, and the island is only one of 
the higher peaks of a range of mountains extending miles 
and miles in the distance, and in the storm the anchor is 
thrown overboard to grapple one or other of these roots 
for an anchorage till the storm be passed and the winds 
calm. So it is with the Church of Jesus Christ — it looks 
solitary and alone as here and there you see it pointing 
its finger to the skies like a lighthouse on the shore or an 
island in the ocean, but her roots are permeating this city 
of ours in all directions and its effects are felt in every 
department whether secular or religious. The old church 
has affected the vital interests of the section we represent. 
We might congratulate you on the manifest elements 
of strength and prosperity which on every side are appar- 
ent ; on the indications of spiritual progress, of growth in 
Christ-likeness; but we have come to congratulate you 
on reaching this birthday. We will pray God for yet a 
grander future for the First Church of Bridgeport than 
you have ever had, and though you have brought your 
thousands into the church, the day will come when the 
record will run up to hundreds of thousands enlisted for 
the service of God and the saving of souls and strengthen- 
ing of everything which is for the good of us all. May 
the Lord bless you and abide with you and strengthen 
you, and may you come out and realize more success 
than you have in the past, until the day when the mother 
and daughters shall be gathered together and shall grasp 
hands cordially with each other over the differences as 
well as the mutual affections existing, and shall glorify 
God and bring the blessed Kingdom of Christ in all its 
glory ! 

Dr. Palmer : I remember having once had occasion to 
allude to the fact that the first Methodist society in New 
England originated in this parish, and that Dr. Pullman, 
being within hearing, said he didn't know of any organi- 
zation in this world that he would rather make an 
improvement on than on the Congregational church. 
We are very glad to have him here to tell us to-night all 
there is in his heart. 



—57— 

Dr. Pullman spoke as follows: My dear brother, m)' 
only regret on this very memorable occasion is that the 
people called Methodists have not a better representative 
here, a more worthy representative than the speaker, but 
it is the accident of my life and the good fortune of my 
life to be at this time pastor of the First Methodist Church 
of this city, and I am therefore called upon to represent 
the Methodist community of the city. I join most heartily 
with the sentiments of congratulation that have been so 
well expressed by the honored clergymen who have pre- 
ceded me. 1 was reluctant to appear here ^ am always 
reluctant to assume to make an address, but finding myself 
among a lot of brothers — for we are all descendants of the 
same mother — finding myself surrounded by a band of 
brothers, I have been gathering confidence. I am glad to 
bring our congratulations because of your great history. 
May I allude to the fact that we are all delighted with 
the exquisite decorations of this temple of the Most High 
on this occasion ? I thought I saw history before me and 
a vision of the growth of human society. We are glad 
also to congratulate you because the occasion illustrates 
the essential union of the Christian churches. I have looked 
through this book to find the bond or basis of church unity. 
I have not been able to find it in government nor in symbols 
nor in ritual nor even in opinions — for there were great 
varieties of opinion in the early churches, and yet there 
was the Holy Catholic Church in the first century, in 
the apostolic days, and I think I have found it in the new 
spiritual life of Jesus Christ. Whether Christians at 
Cyrene or Cappadocia, in Alexandria or in Rome, there 
was a unity that enabled them to walk and pray all 
together — all were included in a Holy Catholic Church. 
That unit}- is brought before us in the words of Paul 
where he said "created anew in Christ Jesus." There is 
a word in the New Testament that symbolizes this fellow- 
ship, a technical word, Koinonia, which translated means 
fellowship, communication. If we walk in the light as 
He is in the light we have fellowship with the Father 
and with His Son Jesus Christ, and I am proud to believe 



-58- 

that this essential union exists in the Christian churches 
to-day. I know Dr. Palmer was sincere when he bade us 
all God speed; I know that this distinguished Baptist 
clergyman was sincere when he bade this great church 
God speed ; and I know our honored brother of St. 
John's, whose honest words delighted us all, was sincere, 
when he congratulated us upon our union. Think of 
Martin, and Edwards, and Dr. Dwight, writing on the 
hill behind us, " I love Thy kingdom, Lord," Ray Palmer 
in New York, writing " My faith looks up to Thee," 
John Wesley talking to the colliers in England till their 
black faces were washed with tears — these men, the lead- 
ers of the Mighty Host of Jesus Christ, were sincere. 1 
am glad that our distinguished founder, Wesley, said he 
wanted a league offensive and defensive with every 
soldier of Jesus Christ, and I think that I may say that 
that is the spirit of the Church to which I have the honor 
to belong. So far as I know, sir, we have no hobby of 
any kind that will prevent or hinder the most cordial 
co-operation and confederation and co-fellowship and 
work with any and all Christian churches. I do not 
believe in organic unity of the churches, but I do believe 
in the spirit of brotherhood and broad co-operation. A 
few years ago, soon after I left college, I went over to 
the old mother country. I was introduced to a distin- 
guished English gentleman in Yorkshire. He was ver}' 
courteous and very intelligent, and he kindly, like many 
of those foreigners, put his time at my service and said 
" I will take you and show you how a civilization grew," 
and he took me up to York and I saw the old walls where 
the followers of Charles the First had been within and 
Cromwell's troopers were without; he took me to the 
Minster, then to Beverly ; then he said " we will run 
down to London," and we went to the room where 
Walter Raleigh wrote his Histor}- of the World, and we 
looked on the spot where the head of Thomas More fell 
in the basket. This afternoon, going among the relics of 
the church and hearing the historical address delivered 
here by Dr. Palmer, I felt that I was studying how a civ- 



—59— 

ilization grew. I looked yonder at the old log church, 
more significant to a student of human history than a 
collection of all the diamonds of the planet, and I was 
breathing once again the Puritan air, the air that Robin- 
son and Brewster breathed and that the great Puritans 
breathed and that Cromwell at Dunbar breathed when 
he shouted to his followers " Let God arise and let his 
enemies be scattered !" I saw again the rise of one of the 
greatest epochs in the history of mankind, the old Puritan 
epoch. 

Much is said over in England about the non-conformist 
conscience, and when the great leaders there have any 
great issue, such as the extension of the suffrage, the 
opening of the universities, home rule, the repression of 
the power of the distillers and brewers, education ; when 
they have any point, any great campaigns that have the 
element of progress, of democracy, of morals involved, 
they make their appeals to the non-conformists' con- 
science ; and the great leaders. Bright and Gladstone and 
the great Congregationalist, Dr. Dale, of Birmingham, 
and Hugh Price Hughes, when they make their appeal to 
the power of England make it to the non-conformist's 
conscience very largely, but that conscience is literally 
the Puritan conscience of an earlier age. It was a splen- 
did outburst for manhood, that reach for libert}', that 
grand conscience- battle, that great Puritan movement in 
the mother country. I hardly know where my ancestors 
did come from. I am mixed up (laughter). I call myself 
sometimes an Irishman, but my forefathers fought with 
the Prince of Orange in the wars for the liberty of Hol- 
land, and from Holland they fought to liberate England 
and later on in other lands, but the blood of soldiers that 
struck for liberty in the days when the great churches 
were born is in my veins. In that epoch all the great 
churches, with the exception of the Episcopal Church, 
were practically born. The Baptist, the Presbyterian, 
the Congregationalist, the Quakers, and a little later, an 
offspring born out of due time, we Methodists came ; and 
then, sir, when I think of the migration in 1620 and of 



— 6o— 

those who were in the Mayflower on that memorable 
voyage I begin to know how history unfolds and God's 
plans are developed. Virgil tells in the ^neid how 
^neas, the son of Venus, brought the household gods 
or penates of Troy through many hardships over sea and 
land to the Lavinian shore and found room ; but in the 
Mayflower, in the spirit of Brewster and Robinson and 
Bradford, came the seeds of empires and civilizations that 
are transforming the world to-day, for on this fair land 
the world is gazing to-day. We would not be here but 
for that migration. The great Church would not be 
here but for that stroke for liberty by which the world was 
elevated. I have found this, sir, that the history of 
thought is the history of great men and great epochs. 
Copernicus elevated the level of men when he put the 
sun in the center of the solar system ; Newton elevated 
the level of the world's thinking men when he bound the 
universe together with the law of gravitation, and since 
then men have been thinking on a theory to elevate the 
universe. Darwin, I believe, has elevated the world's 
thinking by the great law of continuity of life, and great 
epochs lift the world's thinking and the world's learning. 
The reformation, the Methodist movement, but promi- 
nently as a movement of conscience, as a movement of 
conviction, as a movement of manhood, the great Puritan 
assertion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries stands 
out. 

Now sir, I am talking too long. You kindly adverted 
to the fact that the First Methodist Church owes its orig- 
inal members to this church. They are not at all dis- 
pleased with that relation. As you have intimated, we 
are not displeased, and I was wondering if we helped you 
any in return; and I remembered your address to-day 
when you spoke of the time that distinguished man 
became pastor of the church, Mr. Waterman, and I think 
you told us that the church had only forty-seven mem- 
bers after a history of about one hundred and ten years, 
but after his pastorate three hundred were added. About 
the time that distinguished pastor came the Methodists 



— 6i— 

came. You began to grow when ISIethodism came 
(laughter). After a hundred )'ears and more 3-ou had 
only forty-seven members and you then leaped to the 
front, and that was cotemporaneous with the advent of 
Methodism ; and I am not at all displeased to greet again 
and again brothers who were once Methodists in all these 
churches, and I love the Methodist Church and will 
remain in it, and God willing I will die in it, not simply 
on account of what we are ourselves but because we are 
also helping the great churches of the Lord Jesus Christ 
to do good in the world. 

Some time ago I was in Melrose, Scotland. I was look- 
ing at the Abbe)'. I spent the night there and going in 
the morning of the day I had to leave I was taking a last 
lingering look — and I can see those delicate, exquisite 
arches and columns still as they stood out in the beautiful 
morning light — and turning to leave I saw a great tall 
Scotchman at m}' elbow, and I said " What a pity to see 
such a beautiful structure in ruins!" " Ach," said he, 
" what does it matter about the structure so long as the 
truth remains," and I thought it was a great sentiment. 
We had no such structure in our fair land, but we could 
say, as George W. Curtis said, that the New England com- 
munities furnished the highest average of well-doing in 
the history of the world. We can point to Massachusetts, 
we can point to Connecticut, we can point to the old Pine 
Tree State and, let me say, to the great Congregational 
churches, for it was your impulse and high idea of civil 
and religious liberty that laid the foundations of these 
New England communities. We pulled apart ; we are 
coming together. 

With a prophec}^ I would like to close. I had a sort of 
dream this afternoon of what would be two hundred 
years from now. All the churches will remain I think. 
The Methodist Church will be there two hundred years 
from now, the Congregational Church will be there, 
the Presbyterian Church will be there, the Baptist 
brethren will be there, the Universalists will be there, 
the Unitarians I believe will be there, the great Roman 



—62— 

Catholic Church, the Greek Church, they all will be 
there, but they will be softened, they will make less of 
non-essentials and more of love to the great Head of the 
Church. In that better day there will be no sectarianism 
— no strife whether we shall sing by ear or note, but one 
spirit uniting the band of Christian hearts. 

You have seen a composite photograph. I saw a little 
while ago a composite photograph of Gladstone's cabinet ; 
the great Premier was in it ; John Morley, with his intel- 
ligent face, was in it; the great public leader, now pre- 
mier, Lord Roseberry, was in it, but! the ultimate effect 
was a refined, intelligent, spiritual, elevated being. The 
churches will remain, but they will come into such unity 
of spirit that there will be the effect of a great composite 
photograph in which will be distinctly seen the features 
of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

I wanted to tell a little about the child that you have 
referred to, but must not detain you. Out in a Kansas 
conference a year ago Chaplain McKabe was on the 
platform beside one of our Methodist bishops — we call 
them bishops. The roll was called of the old preachers. 
The name of Allen Butner was called. An aged veteran 
of the war rose up and made a little speech and said in 
closing, " I am a veteran of the war and a worn-out 
Methodist preacher." Chaplain McKabe knew his earl}' 
record and leaped to his feet and said "That is the man 
that led the assault up Missionary Ridge," and the 
bishop reached out and grasped the man's hand, sa3'ing, 
" Give me your hand." The audience leaped to their feet, 
somebody struck up " My Country, 'tis of thee," and the 
voice of the great assembly went out while tears fell 
everywhere, and McKabe said that Butner led the 
advance and shouted through the shrieking bullets and 
piercing shell and said " Come on, come on." Grant was 
looking on, and Sheridan. Grant said, " Sheridan, who 
ordered that attack?" Sheridan said, "Nobody ordered 
it, they did it themselves." That, sir, will be the spirit of 
the great churches of Jesus Christ in the years to come. 
Filled with loyalty to Him, they will march forward a band 



-63- 

of brothers, bringing this world to the feet of our Blessed 
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Dr. Palmer: We can hardly claim a parental relation 
as to the First Presbyterian Church. It was an offshoot 
from the Second Church and not from the First, yet many 
of its original members were born and brought up here. 
We are glad to see here its pastor. Rev. Henry A. Daven- 
port. 

Mr. Davenport's remarks follow: — My dear brother 
and Christian friends, " Behold how good it is for breth- 
ren to dwell together in unity." We come with cordial 
greetings, and it is pleasant to see so many dear people 
here attesting to the heartiness of the appreciation of this 
unusual and so significant occasion. Of the pastors of 
native or English-speaking churches who greeted me 
when I came here, the pastor of this church is the only 
one that remains ; one whom in these years I have learned 
not only to esteem but to love ardently, and you must 
allow me to say to-night, because it comes from my heart, 
that a service of this character as well as the work of a 
man like him, standing in one pulpit for twenty-three 
years, is as impossible of calculation as the drops that 
flow from the perennial fountain. 

In relation to the local churches it is rather a pleasantry, 
it stirs a little mirth when we think we are not offspring 
but offsprung, yet imitated our mother and considered 
ourselves justified by her example: that having asked for 
the portion of goods that were falling to us we acted in 
our own independent way, and we appreciate the cordial 
welcome we get here. We bring our hearty congratula- 
tion to Dr. Palmer and our Christian friends for the rea- 
son that this church has been true to the orthodox sym- 
bols of faith through all its history. Among all the 
tangent movements of the passing days this church has 
held to the main road, and one could but be impressed 
when the roll was called of the faithful men of God who 
have ministered here, men whose lives were the best com- 
ment on the gospel. Carlisle says history is the lengthen- 



-64- 

ing shadows of the world's great men, and we cannot help 
but be impressed when we think of the heroic members 
of this church. Strong were they. Nature made them 
heroes. Grace made them kings to reigii forever. We 
give you our congratulations because it seems to me, my 
dear sir, that we claim a little interest after all, if not 
from the point of view of the local church, yet from the 
point of view of the Presbyterian denomination. This 
infant church leaned back on the old Saybrook platform. 
As we heard this afternoon, some of the pastors of this 
church were educated in Presbyterian institutions of 
learning and some of them came from or went to Presby- 
terian churches, and thinking of this occasion I was recall- 
ing a little history — I was thinking of the time when there 
existed a plan of union, when committee men were eligible 
to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, of 
the time when there were more Presbyterians in the field 
of foreign missions than there were Congregationalists, of 
the interest we had in the Home Mission Society, and I 
was thinking of these things with something of compla- 
cency. I was encouraged when the preacher of that nota- 
ble historical sermon announced his text in these words, 
" Remember the days of old, consider the years of many 
generations ; ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thine 
elders, and they will tell thee," but that was all taken out 
of me when he went on in the course of the service and 
revealed the fact that there was great uneasiness on the 
part of the independent portion of the church, and it was 
rather a blow to me ; and I recall how Dr. Dexter in his 
work seemed to be annoyed that in whatever angle he 
looked he was running against Presbyterians (laughter), 
and yet if the lines of ecclesiastical cleavage have been 
more sharply drawn and denominationalism has been 
more thoroughly crystalized, it is pleasant to remember 
that then and now there is the spirit of true fellowship 
to which the brothers have referred. There is a legend 
that tells about a brave prince that cut his way through 
a dense forest to find a castle, and when he found it there 
was revealed to him a maiden who had been waiting a 



-6s- 

hundred years for his coming and there was a union of 
their lives for time to come ; and even as the prophecy 
just made, may we not think that the work we have accom- 
plished in the years gone by will be more than ever real- 
ized in the years to come? 

I have been trying to make it real to myself what it 
means to be two hundred years old. Seventeen years 
ago in the providence of God I came to this city. Do 
you realize that it is within that period of time that half 
of our churches have come into being and that most of 
the permanent institutions of benevolence and charity 
have come into existence? At that time the church I have 
the honor to serve was about twenty-five years old, and 
twenty-five years before its mother was about twenty- 
three years old, and from that point you would have to 
go back fifty years to get to the American Revolution, 
and then this church was hale and stalwart and strong 
and old. Two hundred years ! We don't think of it, 
we don't realize it. The great institutions of to-day 
belong to the decades, and this church stands as a monu- 
ment of the centuries. And especially our young people 
do not realize it. With reference to these great parish 
institutions, they are like the boys who go under the 
apple tree and pick the fruit and swallow it thought- 
lessly and thanklessly. I am glad of an occasion like 
this that will call a halt and cause people to think and 
consider the heritage that has come to them, and I have 
been trying to think here to-night about the great con- 
stituency of this church during two hundred years. Oh, 
the praises that have gone hence in that time ! Is church 
life and church work a thing of to-day .■' No, it links 
eternity. 

" One family we dwell in Him, 
One church above, beneath, 
Though now divided bj' the stream, 
The narrow stream of death. 

One army of the living God, 

To His command we bow ; 
Part of the Host have crossed the flood, 

And part are crossing now." 



—66— 

And these pictures bring it back to me. The people who 
have gone out from this church have gone into that. 
Christian friends, I had thought of what a splendid argu- 
ment we have here for Christianity in the two hundred 
years of the life of the Church. The Christian religion is 
not an experiment, it is no longer a novelty to be scanned 
with curious and skeptical eye, and God gave his revela- 
tions not so much through acts as through events. We 
are scanning events which are the finger-marks of God. 
In all the relations of the Church, its relations to relig- 
ious and civil life, like the two sides of the one fabric, 
the Church brought the power of Heaven to bear on 
earthly things; and one of the great lessons we learn in 
all the differences and disagreements amongst men is that 
while men come and go and theories fall and rise, God 
stands within the shadow watching over His own. 

Just one thought and I will leave you. On looking 
back to the beginning of this church and following it on 
with its various achievements, I am saying to myself what 
a vantage ground it has to-da}' for bringing about unpar- 
alleled achievements. I noticed an athlete the other 
day down at the Park and I said to him, " Don't you 
run too far before you jump ? It seems to me you lose 
your strength." " No," he sa)'S, " it is indispensable, 
we must get the momentum." Think of the momentum 
this church has got in two hundred years with which to 
grapple the problems of this nineteenth century. When 
it began, what were those days? Days of acts of tolera 
tion, days of the Indians, days of the pirates, days with 
out any such facilities or means of Christian work as 
you and I enjoy to-day. When this church began Wes- 
ley was not born, Edwards' thought had not entered 
upon its high career. And what was the site of our 
fair city ? In those days it was comparative nakedness 
to what you and I see to-day and enjoy, and yet from 
that point the fathers advanced, and as we look back 
and scan their bravery and valor, 3'ou and I ought to 
be inspizxd as we come into touch with the devotion 
and consecration of the two centuries. And while we 



-67- 

bring our congratulations, we bring our best wishes for 
the future of this grand old church. Gladstone said that 
the decade from 1875 to 1885 witnessed greater triumphs 
for Christianity than all decades of the ages preceding. 
We are living in a grand and glorious time. It is a grand 
day in which to live and work, and may the significant 
services of this occasion bring new life to this church and 
gird it with new strength that every year to come may 
be more splendid than the years that are gone. There 
are difficulties still before us ; in the face of them let us 
recall that brother of your faith over in the land of Tur- 
key when the command of the Sultan went forth that 
within a brief period all of his order must be exiled. 
That man of God said, " Friends, the Sultan of the uni- 
verse can change all that." Oh, for a living faith in the 
sovereign God who rules in and over all ! May it possess 
and control us, every one ; and ma}'^ it be said concerning 
this church, as the bishop said of Washington, "in youth 
true, in manhood brave, in age wise, in memory immor- 
tal." (Applause.) 

Dr. Palmer : Now we are going to give you a little 
ancient psalmody, "The Lord descended from on High," 
to old " Majesty." That does not go back two hundred 
)'ears, but more than one hundred years. The choir will 
render the old tune, which you will be glad to follow — if 
you can. 

The psalmody was then rendered by the choir and the 
benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Dr. Russell. 



SERVICES OF 

THURSDAY MORNING. 

Drum Prelude. 
Organ Voluntary. 

Anthem, "Send Out Thy Light." 

4- 

Prayer of Commemoration, 

By Rev. CHARLES RAY PALMER, D.D. 

Dr. Palmer: Christian Friends and Fellow Citizens, 
we have met this morning to commemorate the Founders 
of this ancient church, the Fathers of this communit}'. 
We endeavor to revive in some measure the men and their 
ways. We have assembled as they were wont to assem- 
ble, by beat of drum. We have set sentinels at our door 
with weapons of defense because they did it. We have 
placed above us not only the flag of the United States, 
but the Colonial flag of i6S6, bearing upon it the Red 
Cross of St. George, the crown royal and the cipher of 
King James, and also the British Ensign in memory of 
the later colonial days. We have set here our ancient 
plate, nearly as old as the church. All these are sugges- 
tions of the past, as are our models of the churches, from 
the most ancient on your extreme left to the latest upon 
your right ; the present which has been evolved from the 
past speaks for itself. I wish to remind you, that the 



— 6g — 

fathers deserve our veneration for what they were, and 
what they purposed and what they wrought. They pro- 
found!)' believed, as their petition to the General Court 
shows, in their responsibility to God, and their depend- 
ence on his protection and favor. They cherished for 
themselves and for their children the aspiration to be a 
religious and an enlightened community. They built their 
school and their church almost as promptly — quite as reso- 
lutely — as they set up their own habitations, and armed 
to defend them. In all the disabilities of an infant settle- 
ment, and not unconscious of peril from their savage 
neighbors, they encouraged one another and took courage 
from their ennobling aspirations to lay the foundations, 
and accomplish the tasks, in the abiding results of which 
we as their children and successors rejoice at this late 
day. It is fitting that we recall their toils, their ventures, 
their sacrifices and their deeds, and keep their memory 
green. I invite you to join with me in a prayer of com- 
memoration and thanksgiving. Let us pray. 

Almighty and Everlasting God ! — the Father of our Spirits, 
the dwelling place of Thy people in every generation, the con- 
fidence of the ends of the earth — we look unto Thee and desire 
to worship Thee in spirit and in truth ; in devout and grateful 
affection to call to remembrance all Thy loving kindness, all 
Thy faithfulness, and Thy great deliverances in the past. We 
thank Thee, as we gratefully make mention of the fathers who 
planted this community. We thank Thee that Thou didst 
enable them to plant it with the right seed ; we thank Thee 
that the work of Thy servants has from a humble beginning 
grown into so great proportions as it reaches to-day. Our 
Father in heaven, we give Thee thanks that their aspirations 
have been so largely exceeded ; and that there has grown up 
here a Christian community, strong in many respects, strong 
most of all in its purposes and its expectations of the future ; 
looking with hope unto the best ends for which society is 
organized, and seeking the favor of Almighty God unto the 
remotest generations. We thank Thee, O our Father and 
our God, that so many of us are assembled on this occasion, 
and we pray that as we are talking together of the past we 



— 70- 

may be very mindful how entirely we depend upon Thee in 
the present, how manifold are the possibilities of the future and 
how faithful the promises on which our hearts have taken 
hold. Assist us in the services of this hour and grant unto us 
and unto our children that, walking in devoutness before God, 
loving righteousness and pursuing the ways of peace, we may 
continue to make increase in all that pertains to a Christian 
church and a Christian community, and that we may see this 
Commonwealth and this great Nation more and more manifest- 
ing the spirit of a Christian people, a great and glorious peo- 
ple, who have a mission from God to be a light unto the nations 
of the earth. 

This and every needful blessing we ask through the riches 
of Thy grace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Dr. Palmer : My friends, the senior deacon of this 
church will present a paper on the " Limits of Stratfield 
Parish as Originally Constituted." He is himself, as I 
said yesterday, a descendant of the first deacon of the 
church. Deacon Rowland B. Lacey. 

[The address of Deacon Lacey was delivered from manu- 
script at this point] 



PAPER OF DEA. ROWLAND B. LACEY. 

It is said when the distinguished Roger Ludlow of the 
Connecticut colony, having started with his company of 
followers from Hartford to occupy and hold Uncoway 
(Fairfield) against the encroachment of the Dutch of New 
Amsterdam, as they came to Pequonnock he here paused 
to rest and refresh his tired flock and jaded animals. The 
Indians had long had their corn fields on the extensive 
plain now known as our " west end," and on Golden hill 
plateau. Ludlow was charmed with the location — its fine 
groves — the beauty and fertility of its open fields, and 
would gladly have located his settlement here — but this 
he could not do, as before his start his company was bound 
to settle at Uncoway — and that was his objective point. 
The settlement of Stratford was made at about the same 



—71— 

time — both as a result of the successful expedition of Cap- 
tain Mason against the Pequots, leaving the shores and 
fair fields of Pequonnock in the partial occupancy of a rem- 
nant of the conquered Indians. 

The enchanting vision of the beautiful harbor and lands 
of Pequonnock remained in the minds of these adven- 
turers — was rehearsed abroad, and later some of the more 
enterprising sons of Stratford and Fairfield families were 
joined by others from the Connecticut river settlements 
and from Massachusetts bay in acquiring titles to Pequon- 
nock lands — ^and the Indians were restricted to Golden 
hill and the fields and shores immediately south, where 
they long remained a menace to the infant settlement of 
Stratfield. 

The division line between the two ancient towns (of 
Stratford and Fairfield) was the wide street identical with 
the present Park avenue, commencing near tidewater at a 
point near Park place and extending northerly about eigh- 
teen miles on a line slightly divergent westerly from the 
meridian. The territory occupied was about equal in area 
on either side of this center line, or in other words one-half 
in Stratford and one-half in Fairfield — the outer limits for 
some years remaining rather indefinite. Two other roads 
were opened into the interior, one substantially identical 
with Main street north of Newtown pike and the other 
with Clinton and Brooklawn avenue and the Easton road. 

The main east and west road of the settlement was the 
old New York and Boston stage road, otherwise called 
" King's Highway," the present North avenue. On the 
east was Pequonnock river, forming an excellent harbor, 
lying close upon the bosom of Long Island Sound, yet 
with tide water of good depth, extending by a somewhat 
winding channel between wooded bluffs far inland, so land- 
locked as to be protected from the storms and enemies 
that swept and infested the inland sea. From this terri- 
tory a North society was improvised which became with 
contiguous territory North Fairfield parish (now Easton), 
and Stratfield was confined to an interior depth of a little 
more than four miles. 



—72— 

It is not my province to rehearse the history of the set- 
tlement. Suffice it to say it had the elements of growth 
and made such progress that the General Court recognized 
the propriety in May, 1701, of defining its limits, more par- 
ticularly its western boundary, as follows: 

" May, 1701, this assembly having heard and considered 
the petition or request of the inhabitants of Fairfield vil- 
lage — presented to them by Lieut. James Bennett, desiring 
that the court would state and settle for them a line for 
the west boundary to their plantation, etc., do order and 
enact that the line to be the west boundary of the said 
plantation shall run so that it may take in and include 
within their bounds one Moses Jackson Miller, his hous- 
ing and lands, and run on the west side of old Jackson's 
lots (viz.), pasture, building lot and long lot upwards to 
the northern end of the bounds of the town of Fairfield, 
and that all such person or persons as have built or shall 
build and inhabit on the east side of the above said line, 
and on the west side of Pequonnock river, shall pay to all 
public charges that shall arise in the said plantation his 
ratable part thereof, provided always — That this act shall 
in no wise hinder or abridge the inhabitants of said plan- 
tation of using and holding the privilege of feeding sheep 
to the westward of the above said line, as it was granted 
to them formerly by the inhabitants of the town of Fair- 
field ; and further it is enacted by the authority aforesaid : 
That the said plantation (formerly called Pequonnock and 
Fairfield village) shall for the future be called by the name 
of Stratfield. — Col. Rec. iv, 356. 

October, 1752 — by act of the General Assembly — on a 
memorial of the Society, these limits were enlarged on 
the north and west, and further defined at the southwest 
border, near the present Burr road so-called. Later 
New Pasture Point,— the present East Bridgeport, was 
included. The new west line was in part the Morehouse 
highway, being the second highway west of the Division 
Road. The special features of the present site of the City 
of Bridgeport on the west side of Pequonnock river, was 
the commanding eminence of Golden Hill, with excellent 



—73— 

springs of pure water (well known to the Indians) and its 
beautiful wide expanse for an upper town ; now so well 
utilized with elegant villas and happy homes of more 
modest size and architecture. On the east side was the 
fine plateau between the Pequonnock and Old Mill 
stream, its extensive fields of fine pasture, its groves of 
timber and high wooded bluffs overlooking the harbor — 
of which the elder President Dwight(of Yale College) 
thus wrote in the 3d vol. of his travels, in 1822 : 

" A more cheerful and elegant piece of ground can 
scarcely be imagined than the point which stretches be- 
tween the Pequonnock and the Old Mill brook (East 
Bridgeport), and the prospects presented by the harbors 
at the hiouths of these streams, the Sound and the sur- 
rounding country, are in a fine season gay and brilliant, 
perhaps without a parallel." 

Of Bridgeport at this period he wrote: "There is not 
in the State a prettier village than the borough of Bridge- 
port. The stj'le of building adopted is unusually happy. 
None of the houses are large or splendid, but almost all 
of them, together with their appendages, leave upon the 
mind an impression of neatness and cheerfulness, not often 
found elsewhere. There are two churches in this village ; 
an Episcopal and a Presbyterian (Congregational) ; both 
respectable buildings, — appearing like twins on the oppo- 
site sides of a small green. The two parts of Bridgeport 
are connected by a bridge, ninety rods in length, which 
crosses the Pequonnock in the center of the village, and 
was the origin of its name." 

The fertile plain across the southern border of the ter- 
ritory at the distance of from one to two miles, rises into 
hills and thus continues gradually twelve or fifteen miles, 
affording fine agricultural possibilities, which were early 
utilized to a greater extent than to-day. Old Mill hill on 
the east, Grover hill and Holland heights on the west, 
with the intervening Beardsley park and Spooner park, 
with concourse and observation points, attest the beauty 
and grandeur of the scenery, while the rural drives and 



--74— 

walks with their shades and seclusion possess an unfailing 
charm. 

Time has demonstrated the beauty and excellence of 
the water front with its series of harbors, charming Sea- 
side park and its boulevard. 

The Newtown and New Milford turnpike, and later the 
Housatonic railroad, by their immense traffic, demon- 
strated the central position of the settlement, and the 
results have been the fulfilment of the prophecy made by 
the tarry here of Ludlow, and his evident appreciation. 



ROLL CALL OF ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE 
STRATFIELD CHURCH. 

RESPONDED TO BY THEIR DESCENDANTS. 

Dr. Palmer: Our fathers made much in their relig- 
ious faith of the covenanted mercies. They rejoiced in 
the Old Testament promises. They believed that their 
seed should continue, and instead of the fathers should be 
the children. It has occurred to us it would be a fitting 
service this morning to call the roll of the original mem- 
bers of the church and see how far every one of them is 
represented by a descendant. To that we now propose 
to address ourselves. Naturally the first name to be 
called should be that of Charles Chauncey, the minister. 
He is the only one, so far as I know, who has no repre- 
sentative to-day. It is our disappointment because we 
expected Dr. Chauncey M. Depew would be here to 
respond for his distinguished ancestor. He himself 
desired to do so, but other duties have prevented him, 
and so far as I am aware we are not prepared to present 
a representative of Charles Chauncey, but this church is 
his memorial, and his name is identified with all that is 
good among us. 



—75— 

Richard Hubbell, Sen. "Present."* 

Responded to by Major Howard Gregory Hubbell, a 
descendant of the eighth generation. 

Isaac Wheeler, Sen. " Present." 

Responded to by Robert E. Wheeler, a child of this 
church and descendant of the seventh generation. 

James Bennett. '^Present." 

Responded to by Clarence H. Kelsey in accordance 
with an unbroken family tradition. 

Samuel Beardsley. " " Present." 

Responded to by Samuel Fayerweather Beardsley, a 
descendant of the eighth generation. 

Samuel Gregory. "Present." 

Responded to by Hon. Morris B. Beardsley, who rep- 
resents Samuel Beardsley in his own right, and Samuel 
Gregory in the right of his grandmother. 

Matthew Sherman. " Present." 

Responded to by James Eaton Beach and by David 
Sherman Beach, descendants of the seventh generation. 

Richard Hubbell, Jun. "Present." 

Responded to by Captain H. W. Hubbell of the United 
States First Artillery, a descendant of the sixth gener- 
ation. 

David Sherman. " Present." 

David Sherman had no son. From one of the daughters 
Deacon R. B. Lacey descended and makes a response. 

John Odell, Jun. "Present." 

Responded to by Henry R. Parrott, Chairman of the 
Society's Committee, descending from John Odell through 
his grandfather's mother. 

* Each representative, as he responded, came forward and took his place 
in a line from right to left. 



-76- 

The first members have thus demonstrated their right 
to be regarded as the fathers of this church. We might 
place here many more descendants from the original 
nine, some descended from two or more of them. We 
have been most careful to place those onl}' whose descent 
we could verify, except in one instance, where we have 
been obliged to rely upon tradition. These are the indi- 
cations of the faithfulness of the God who remembers 
mercy unto thousands of generations. (Applause.) 

We will unite in singing the 1046th hymn. 

The hymn was rendered by the choir. 

Dr. Palmer : Our friends who have just appeared, as 
they represented the original members, have a right to 
be heard for themselves, and the Hon. Morris B. Beards- 
ley has now an opportunity to respond for them. 

Hon. M. B. Beardsley : Ladies and gentlemen, I 
confess to a feeling of great pride as I arise to respond on 
behalf of the descendants of the original members of this 
grand old church whose Bi-Centennial we are to-day met 
to celebrate. I have never entirely forgotten an incident 
of my early career in this city. I was a candidate for 
political office, and my opponent, who had himself come 
from a distant State shortly before, deprecated the fact 
that a new comer in the city — as he styled me — should so 
far presume as to contend with him ! To-da}'. standing 
here, tracing ni}' pedigree back directly to that William 
Beardsley who was the first deputy to the General Court 
from Stratford, and who gave its name to the old town, 
and down through Samuel Beardsley and Samuel Greg- 
ory, two of the nine original members of this church, and 
asked to speak for all of them, 1 have my vindication. 

It is a felicitous as well as noteworthy feature that at a 
roll call we are able to muster unbroken ranks ; that after 
the lapse of two centuries in the same church there could 
be found members of each of those original families; that 
they are members in good standing and active — one of 
them, the senior deacon of the church, representing the 



-V— 

first deacon of the old church ; and another, Mr. Parrott, 
after a third of a century of service, still the honored 
chairman of the Society's Committee. 

Surely it shows sturdiness of race, loyalty in church 
affiliations and no evidence of family deterioration. 

How worthy of our respect and grateful remembrance 
are those pioneers ! 

I would that one of them could stand in my place and 
could tell you their story ; that he could tell you of the 
causes which led them to separate themselves from the 
older villages of Stratford and Fairfield, of their aspira- 
tions and of the difficulties which beset their path; how 
coming into this comparative wilderness they built their 
homes, and then to meet the requirements of education 
and public worship erected the school house and the 
church : how, unterrified by hostile Indians and undaunted 
by the opposition of their former white friends who dis- 
liked to lose them as taxpayers, and in the face of obsta- 
cles which we their descendants would consider insur- 
mountable, they laid the foundations of a new communit)'. 

Our pastor in his masterly historical address has given 
us the fruits of his researches, and has laid before us all 
that has been preserved in the records of those years. 
With rare eloquence he has pictured to us what manner 
of men they were and enumerated their difficulties, their 
triumphs and their failures. 

They seem to have been fair samples of that noble race 
of men whom God raised up to accomplish his work in 
these New England states — having high aims, indomitable 
perseverance and lofty character. 

They held together this little community for a centurj^ 
and made it the nucleus around which gathered that 
which in time became the borough and then the city of 
Bridgeport. 

From the first the influence of these early settlers has 
been felt, and their history and that of their descendants 
is largely the history of Bridgeport. 

Neither the First Church nor the Congregational 
denomination can monopolize this occasion. We are 



-78- 

commemorating the natal day of this community, and it 
is not the fault of those in charge that the entire city is 
not participating in them, as they were invited to do. 

These men did not come here to form a church, but to 
make homes, and the school house and the church came 
afterward to meet their growing necessities. They were 
first of all citizens who had separated from the communi- 
ties in which they had lived and came here to form one 
for themselves. 

The records tell of their struggles, and as each emer- 
gency arose they met it. 

During the Revolutionary war they formed a company 
and took the field, and in each stirring epoch they played 
well their part. 

Stratford learned that they had outgrown her leading 
strings when, wearied of going over there to vote, they 
adjourned the town meeting to meet here, and, as Pharaoh 
of old, was then moved to " let them go." How well they 
have succeeded let this fair city attest. Let me repeat it. 
This is more of a city than a church anniversary. It 
should be a civico-religious holiday, and enlist the inter- 
est of every one. 

We hear many pessimistic utterances regarding our 
cities, and I am aware that Bridgeport in common with 
her sisters has and will have difficulties to contend with 
which our ancestors never dreamed of, but I have faith in 
the American people, faith that as they have overcome 
dangers in the past so they will outlive greater ones even 
if the}' must come in the future. 

I believe in another century we shall find the old 
church at her post, and in the midst of a greater Bridge- 
port, that there will be then a tri-ccntennial celebration, 
on broader lines, wherein city and church shall have 
equal parts. 

We can onl)' hope when that day comes that we may 
be able to receive from those having that in charge a 
little of the respect and esteem and gratitude with which 
we look back on our predecessors ; and that we may feel 
that though it was not for us to found the city, it was for 



—79— 

each one in his own line, and in his own humble way, to 
contribute all that lay in his power to beautify and 
enlarge and develop our city. (Applause.) 



THE SAYBROOK CONSTITUTION AND THE 
CONNECTICUT CHURCHES. 

Prof. George P. Fisher, D.D., LL.D., New Haven. 

Dr. Palmer : Charles Chauncey, the first minister of 
this church, preached the Gospel to his people here, 
and did service in the colony of Connecticut. Among 
other things he was a prominent member of the Saybrook 
Convention called to frame an ecclesiastical constitution 
for the churches of Connecticut by the authority of the 
General Court. I felt that the best commemoration we 
could make of Charles Chauncey was to ask Dr. Fisher, 
the Professor of Ecclesiastic Divinity in Yale Divinity 
School and a scholar of world-wide fame, to tell us in a 
familiar talk something about the true significance to the 
State of Connecticut of the Saybrook Constitution. I am 
very glad to introduce Professor Fisher to you. 

Prof. Fisher : Brethren, ladies and gentlemen, I 
sympathize with you all in regret at the absence of the 
Hon. Chauncey Depew, who was once a pupil of mine 
at Yale College and whose career I have always followed 
with interest. It is some consolation to me, however, to 
reflect that the theme assigned to me is a different one 
from that which he would have taken up and that Mr. 
Depew is more familiar with many other platforms than 
he is with the platform framed at Saybrook (laughter). 
I feel honored at being appointed to take part in this most 
interesting anniversary ; for there is no church more 
deserving of respect than the First Church in Bridgeport. 
I design to make a few simple statements respecting the 
ancient constitution of the churches of Connecticut, which 
Mr. Chauncey took part in framing. You will remember 
that Diedrich Knickerbocker, in his history of New York, 



— 8o— 

begins by saying that, in order to get a fair start, he will 
go back to Adam. I do not propose to go back quite so 
far; and I trust f shall not transgress the limits of time 
appointed to me ; for I must go back a little way, to 
remind you of some circumstances connected with the 
early settlement of New England. 

There were, as )'ou all are probably aware, two very 
distinct classes of settlers, and two settlements, on the 
shores of New England. The first settlers at Plymouth 
were out-and-out Independents, who had renounced the 
established Church of England, and all its ways. The 
settlers, or great body of settlers, who founded Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut were non-conforming members 
of the Church of England. When, however, they found 
themselves on these shores, and framed their own organi- 
zation to suit themselves, they found themselves substan- 
tially in harmony with the Pilgrims at Plymouth. There 
was always developed, however, a more conservative 
type of Congregationalism among the Puritan settlers of 
Massachusetts and Connecticut than characterized the 
Pilgrims. In fact, among the English Independents there 
were two types. There was Brown, the founder of the 
Brownists, the class under which the Pl3'mouth settlers 
may be reckoned ; and Barrow — a martyr, an early mar- 
tyr to Congregational principles — who was of a much 
more conservative turn. Further, among the settlers of 
Massachusetts and Connecticut there appeared in process 
of time two tendencies; a more conservative spirit, and 
a tendency to democracy ; and these tendencies came on 
occasions, especially as you draw near the close of the 
seventeenth century, into conflict. The organization of 
our churches throughout New England was Congre- 
gational, and each church had a pretty complete control 
of its own affairs. The powers of the ministers or elders 
were very great compared with what they are possessed 
of at the present, in relation to the body of the church 
members; but each church elected its own minister 
and selected him without any aid from abroad in that 
matter. Towards the end of the seventeenth century 



— bl— 

there appeared in Massachusetts a strong conserva- 
tive feeling and movement, and in 1705 a convention 
of ministers met in Boston, the Mathers being among 
the leaders m this movement, who drew up certain pro- 
posals for an alteration in the constitution of the Congre- 
gational churches. There were two principal measures 
which they recommended. The first was the establish- 
ment of an association of ministers for the licensure of 
candidates for the ministry ; and the second was the 
forming of a standing Council to take part in the ordina- 
tion and installation of ministers. 

This proposal, although it was favored and urged by 
powerful influences, was not agreeable to the Massa- 
chusetts people. While one of these measures was 
adopted and associations of ministers were formed who 
licensed candidates for the pulpit, the second measure, 
which was the recommendation of a standing Council, 
was not adopted. 

But in Connecticut, about the time of the organization 
of Yale College in 1701, the conservative feeling grew 
quite strong, and there was a desire to carry out those 
measures in regard to the church organization which were 
agreeable to the mass of the people. In 1708, largely 
through the influence of Governor Saltonstall, who was of 
that way of thinking, the Colonial Legislature took the 
first steps that led, during that year, to the assembling 
of the Saybrook Synodj which metin connection with the 
meeting of the Corporation of Yale College at Saybrook, 
and framed the ancient constitution of the Connecticut 
churches. 

Now one of the members of that synod— 1 suppose the 
youngest — was the Rev. Charles Chauncey. He must by 
that time have become a conservative — in case he had 
ever been anything dififerent. The tradition respecting 
the Rev. Israel Chauncey, his father, was that at his ordi- 
nation the laying on of hands was by a Mr. Brinsmade, a 
lay elder, who, it is said — and 1 believe the tradition 
credible — wore a leather mitten on the occasion, and 
hence it was called a " leather-mitten ordination." It was 
6 



thought a very loose and objectionable method of ordain- 
ing a minister. 

The Rev. Charles Chauncey was, however, a conserva- 
tive and took part in framing the Saybrook synod. 

Now the Presbyterians and Congregationalists in Eng- 
land in 1691 had formed a confederacy or union together, 
and drawn up certain heads of agreement to determine 
their relations to one another. One related to the licens- 
ing of ministers, and the other to the calling of councils, 
which were, however, to be advisory councils. The Say- 
brook Synod adopted the heads of agreement, which had 
been framed in the manner I have stated ; and they also 
drew up a platform of their own. 

These two parts of the Saybrook constitution were not 
strictly consistent. There was a compromise, and there- 
fore a conflict arose on the interpretation of the docu- 
ment composed by the delegates at Saybrook and sanc- 
tioned by the legislature. They established the associa- 
tions of ministers, meeting to license candidates for the 
ministry ; and in the platform they departed from the 
provisions of the heads of agreement b}' saying, or 
appearing to say, that the standing council which they 
established, or the consociation — which was a council — 
should have authority to decide questions in dispute, and 
questions relating to the settlement and dismissal of 
ministers. Therefore there were two interpretations 
from the beginning; a strict interpretation — a more 
Presbyterian interpretation — and a more free interpreta- 
tion, which followed the substance of the heads of agree- 
ment adopted in England. 

In Fairfield County the strict interpretation — that which 
gave to the standing council of the Consociation of 
churches the power to determine questions in dispute 
— was adopted and carried into effect. It found approval 
also in some other counties. Whereas in New Haven 
County the Saybrook constitution was accepted only with 
such appended interpretations, — appended to the act ot 
acceptance — which were on the side of a free Congrega- 
tional system. We may say the upshot of the whole mat- 



-83- 

ter was, that a constitution in a degree Presbyterian was 
adopted for the Congregational churches of Connecticut, 
and sanctioned by the Legislature. When the great 
revival broke out there was occasion for further legisla- 
tive interference owing to the zeal of the revivalists and 
the measures which were adopted by them looking to the 
separation of churches. The laws were very strict in 
regard to what were called "separatists." Thus the 
Colonial legislature ordained that no minister should 
preach within the bounds of any parish in Connecticut 
without the consent of the minister thereof, a penalty 
being attached for any violation of that law. The Rev. 
Dr. Finle}', who was afterwards president of Princeton 
College, was arrested in the town of Fairfield, by a sheriff, 
for preaching within the parish of the minister of Fair- 
field. He was taken to New Haven, where he was com- 
pelled, on the Lord's day, to attend a regular Congrega- 
tional service ; and the next day was set by the sherifif 
beyond the bounds of the colony. Those were the " good 
old daj's " when the conservatives ruled. Such was the 
origin of the Saybrook platform, in the framing of which 
the Rev. Charles Chauncey took part. 

Now, a few words — for I must not take up your time 
with these reminiscences — respecting the working and 
operation of that constitution. Well, it is the old conflict 
between conservatism and democracy. The tendency of 
Congregationalism has been sometimes towards aristoc- 
racy, but more and more towards democracy. For a cen- 
tury after the settlement of New England the elders and 
ministers of the church had concurrent jurisdiction with 
the members. No important measures, except in great 
emergencies, would be passed without the concurrence 
of the senate and house, the minister and the church 
members. 

Were there time, I would speak'of what is called "the 
half-way covenant," which was an attempt to turn the Con- 
gregational church into the likeness, so far as practicable, 
of the English parish. These questions were not theolog- 
ical, they were ecclesiastical. The churches were pretty 



-84- 

well agreed for a long period, certainly for a century, in 
regard to their theological opinions. 

As to the general effect and influence of the Saybrook 
platform on our Congregationalism, 1 myself am inclined 
to take a favorable view. There was some friction no 
doubt in connection with it ; some oppressive measures no 
doubt were taken. But these were aside from the main 
drift of events. One effect of that constitution, by which 
the Consociations were created, was to bring the churches 
of Connecticut into closer relation with the Presbyterian 
church, than were sustained by Congregationalists else- 
where in New England. Generally one consequence of 
this fact was that as our people went out into New York 
and into the states further West, they affiliated easily 
with the Presbyterians, and a plan of union was estab- 
lished somewhat after the fashion of the heads of agree- 
ment which were framed at an early date in England 
between the Presbyterians and Congregationalists. The 
effect of this plan of union was that the Congregational- 
ists and Presbyterians were united in maintaining and 
diffusing the gospel. No doubt the results were strongly 
in favor of the spread of the Presbyterian polity. Pres- 
byterianism, therefore, prevailed very extensively in New 
York and the states farther westward. This concession 
was made by the New England Congregationalists in the 
interest of peace and fraternit}'. 

I am aware that in modern days our Congregational 
writers have generally held that the plan of union was a 
mistake, and that it contributed to the building up of the 
Presbyterian church to the detriment of Congregational- 
ism in this country. But for one 1 am not sure that this 
is the correct view to take. But for some arrangement 
of this kind the Presbyterians and Congregationalists 
would have been rival and conflicting sects, whereas this 
for the time was avoided. 

Then from another point of view the fact should be 
noted that New England principles and New England 
ways of thinking have largely leavened the I^resbyterian- 
ism of New York and ot the western states; and had 



-85- 

there been from the besfinning an antagonism between 
these two parties, then the Presbyterian church would be 
— well, be worse than it is now (loud laughter) — would 
certainly have been quite different from what it actually is. 
Now I have made statements such as I have made to 
my class at home, and I will not prolong them. I will 
simply say that this semi-Presbyterian arrangement in 
Connecticut — which in 1784 came to an end by legislative 
measures — so far as it resulted in the closer fellowship of 
the churches here, and in the effects which I have 
described, worked by no means badly. This conjunc- 
tion of the Congregationalist and the Presbyterian is an 
example of that influence which New England has exerted 
through this land. It has not gone out as the champion 
of small things or of ecclesiastical bigots. It has con- 
tented itself with being the nursery of men and the nur- 
sery of principles. (Loud applause.) 



THE MEMORY OF THE FATHERS THE INSPI- 
RATION OF THEIR CHILDREN. 

Hon. Eliphalet W. Blatchford, Chicago, III. 

Dr. Palmer: One of the most significant gifts ever 
bestowed upon this church was that of the Rev. Samuel 
Blatchford, whose pictures hang in the middle of that 
side of the church ; who came here towards the end of 
the last century. We are happy in having with us to-day 
the Hon. Eliphalet W. Blatchford, of Chicago, a grand- 
son of that pastor, and the son of another pastor, whose 
pictures hang nearer the rear of the building. He has 
come in filial affection to speak to us to-day ; has come all 
the way from Chicago, out of a very busy life. I know 
you will be glad to hear him. I have the pleasure of 
presenting to you Mr. Blatchford, a business man of Chi- 
cago, President of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago 
Theological Seminary, and Vice-President of the Ameri- 
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 



—86— 

Hon. EuriiAi.ET \V. Bi.atciiforo : Members of the 
First Coiifjrcgational Cluirch of Bridfjcjiort and the other 
churches who have united in this celebration, ladies and 
gentlemen — While realizing that the invitation to address 
you at this time is due only to my being the son and the 
grandson of two of the honored pastors of this church, 
I am still deeply sensible of the honor conferred. The 
request to speak, with the programme already printed, 
came to me as a surprise shortly before leaving home. It 
was accompanied by a letter from your pastor indicating 
the attractive place assigned me between the eminent 
Professor of History and the President of Yale Univer- 
sity. With all deference to your pastor's judgment, I may 
confidentially say to you that while the honor is great, 
the trial to a simple layman is somewhat appalling. 

The thoughtful and scholarly historical address to 
which we listened yesterda}' has given to the theme 
assigned me — "The memory of the Fathers the inspira- 
tion of the children " — a new and deeper meaning. While 
listening to the simple records of the successive pastor- 
ates, I was deeply impressed with the power of the work 
of a Church of Christ continued steadily through two cen- 
turies. No great achievement, as the world calls great- 
ness, but a persistent holding up through poverty, trial, 
self-denial, opposition, political exigencies, national revo- 
lutions, foreign and civil war, of that banner which is one 
day to float victorious over a world redeemed. My 
brother, and members of this and affiliated churches, in 
rescuing from the mist of time the facts which outline the 
life of this Bridgeport church tor two hundred years, 3'ou 
are doing a work whose influence extends far bc\'ond this 
place and time ; you are bringing to many who are battling 
for the same truth in this and other lands, cburage, cheer, 
faith in the promises of God, and recognition of His guid- 
ing providences. 

I feel the topic of the hour suggests my presenting facts 
connected with the life of my grandfather — Rev. Samuel 
Blatchford, jiastor of this church from 1797 to 1804, and 
also of my father — Rev. John Blatchford, also pastor of 



-87- 

this church from 1831 to 1836. I am indebted for the facts 
relating to my grandfather to an autobiographical sketch, 
privately printed by my cousin, Samuel Blatchford, late 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. 

Samuel Blatchford was an Englishman, born at Ply- 
mouth Dock, now Devonport, opposite Plymouth, 1767, 
of parents " both of whom were eminent for piety." " By 
them," he writes, " I was early devoted to the service of 
the sanctuary, should it please God to make me a sub- 
ject of divine grace, and my studies were directed with 
special reference to that object." His studies in the 
ancient languages were pursued with special thorough- 
ness, thus laying the foundation for his prominent and suc- 
cessful career as a classical teacher. 

In the autobiography some facts are stated, which, as 
they touch upon national as well as personal interests, I 
will read. They occurred when he was about ten years 
old: 

" About this time the American Revolution commenced, 
an event which excited the interest of all Europe, and 
brought forward, even in England, many open friends to 
the claims of America, and the rights and liberty of the 
Provinces. Among these were my relatives, who distin- 
guished themselves, as Providence gave them opportunity, 
by manifesting the sincerity of their zeal. This was par- 
ticularly the case with the Reverend Robert Heath, my 
mother's eldest brother, who, together with my mother, 
essentially ameliorated the suffering of the American pris- 
oners who were confined in Mill Prison at Dartmoor. 
From their own resources they advanced considerable 
sums, until, at length, a benevolent association was formed 
in London, for this purpose. On referring to a letter 
which I received from my uncle Heath, dated February 
13, 1797, I find that the Marquis of Rockingham, the 
Duke of Richmond, and several other conspicuous char- 
acters were at the head of this noble institution."* "It 

* These facts were corroborated by the testimony of Lord Houghton, given 
to me personally. 



—88— 

was at the request of these noblemen," writes Mr. Heath, 
" who formed the committee of this society, that I under- 
took to distribute such subscriptions as might be raised 
for this purpose of benevolence. That which I was privi- 
leged in doing afforded me sincere pleasure, for they 
were in a state in which they could not help themselves." 
"The assistance was sometimes conve3'ed by Mr. Heath's 
direct agency, and sometimes I was emplo3'ed, as being 
by my youth less subject to suspicion. In consequence 
of this, I was compelled to spend portions of several days 
in each week in that prison where our American brethren 
were treated rather as rebels against the government than 
as prisoners of war. The kindness with which I was 
received by these poor fellows, and the frequent conver- 
sations which I held with them relative to their country 
and their homes, awakened within me feelings by no 
means transient, and led me, at that early age, to deter- 
mine that, when I became a man, I would choose my resi- 
dence in America. I well remember their expression of 
gratitude; and their sincerity was testified by the numer- 
ous little presents which I constantly received from them, 
consisting of carved boxes, box inkstands and miniature 
ships, beautifully rigged. 

The spiritual wants of these poor fellows were not 
neglected. Bibles and hymn books were distributed 
among them, and Mr. Heath would frequently address 
them on the subject of religion. Nor did the charities of 
these benevolent individuals stop here. Retreats were 
provided for such as fortunatel}' should make their escape. 
Among these happy few was the late Captain Smedley, 
collector of customs at the port of Fairfield, in Connecti- 
cut. He was concealed in the house of a Mrs. Chenough, 
whither I have often been sent with means of relief for 
him and others. 

Before an opportunity arose for forwarding those con- 
cealed at Mrs. Chenough's to Holland, on their way to 
America, the following circumstance occurred : A gentle- 
man, captain of a vessel of war, but whose name 1 do not 
recollect, had been secreted at mv father's until the search 



-89- 

after him was supposed to be over. To effect his return, it 
was determined that he should accompany my uncle and 
my mother to London. A post-chaise received them about 
three o'clock in the morning, and they traveled unmolested 
as far as Haldown Heath, an extensive common of flinty 
soil, between Plymouth Dock and Exeter, when, hearing 
the trampling of horses, my uncle perceived, from the 
glass in the back of the chaise, that a company of horse- 
men was pursuing them. In this extremity, the expe- 
dient was adopted of placing the fugitive on the bottom 
of the carriage and concealing him with their cloaks. 
The company, having overtaken them, caused the postil- 
lion to stop. Observation was made by the officer, and 
the company passed on, after having made an apology for 
detaining them. They now hoped to meet with no fur- 
ther molestation, but soon perceived that the horsemen 
had halted, and were waiting the coming up of the car- 
riage. The postillion was again ordered to stop, the for- 
mer process was repeated, and they then passed on 
towards the city. Whether the fugitive was really being 
pursued or not, could not be ascertained. My uncle 
thought it prudent, instead of going to the city, to enter 
the lower suburbs and proceed immediately to the town 
of Collumpton, about twelve miles distant, on the Bristol 
road. At Collumpton they changed carriages, and reached 
London in safety. My mother, who was a woman of timid 
make, although not apprehensive at the time of suffering 
any evil effects from her fright, underwent, in consequence 
of it, a severe attack of illness. She was removed from 
the carriage to her bed at her brother's, Mr. Richard 
Heath's, and was unable to leave it for a space of six 
weeks." 

I will not longer linger over the details of the early life 
of Dr. Blatchford. His first distinct religious impressions 
commenced when, between eight and nine years old, he 
listened to a sermon from the words, " The Master is 
come and calleth for thee." " About the age of twelve," 
he writes, "the Lord was pleased, as I humbly hope, to 
further by His own spirit the word of grace. It was 



— 90- 

under the preaching of a colleague of Mr. Kinsman's, a 
Mr. Dunn, from Psalm So, verse 19, " Turn us again, O 
Lord God of Hosts, cause Thy face to shine, and we 
shall be saved." My distress was very great, and m}' 
affliction called forth the solicitude of my parents. My 
father urged upon me the great truths of the gospel, as 
the claim which God had upon the hearts of His creatures, 
the necessity of regeneration, and the certainty of salva- 
tion to all who should obtain reconciliation with God 
through the merits of the sacrifice of Christ. These 
prayers and exhortations were, I trust, instrumental in 
causing me to seek, and, as I trust, to obtain a hope 
which will never make me ashamed. Now was I pecu- 
liarly delighted with the idea of being, at some future 
time, honored of God by entering the ministry." 
He pays a beautiful tribute to this Christian father : 
" Previously, however, to m}^ removal from Willington, 
it pleased God to visit my dear father with a disease 
which terminated in his death. He was a rich partaker 
in the grace of God, lived much in the fellowship with 
the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ, and, in the sixty- 
third year of his age, terminated his earthly pilgrim- 
age, and entered into that rest which remaineth for the 
people of God — an inheritance incorruptible, undefiied, 
and that fadeth not away. He was a most affectionate 
parent. My last interview with him I can never forget. 
He took me with him to Mount Batton, a favorite retreat, 
about half a mile from Plymouth Dock. After having 
spent a considerable time there, during which we experi- 
enced mingled emotions of pleasure and pain, we set out 
on our return. Having reached a retired field, I received 
his last advice, and, while we knelt d(jwn together on 
the sod, he renewedly dedicated me to God, and solemnly 
implored the blessing of a covenant God and Father to 
rest upon a beloved son whom he expected never to see 
agam in this vale of tears, this land of separation." 

Time forbids dwelling on his student life, his entering 
on the ministry, his faithful labors at places in Devon- 
shire, and finally his call to the work in this countr}'. A 



—91— 

passage from the autobiography, of historic interest, as 
illustrating British ecclesiastical and colonial expedients, I 
will read. Whether such illustration forms part of the 
Church " history " of your honored guest, I know not : 

" Previously to our marriage, an invitation was pre- 
sented to me, through the Rev. Dr. Lake, of London, to 
accompany Lord Dorchester to Canada, to the governor- 
ship of which he was appointed. The design, which was 
originated by Charles James Fox, was to establish, under 
the patronage of the British government, a Presbyterian 
Church, with privileges equal to those enjoyed by the 
Episcopal Church, in order to induce persons to emigrate 
from the United States to Canada. The salary offered 
was ^300 sterling per annum, with other emoluments, and 
I was to be returned at the expense of the government if 
dissatisfied with the situation. This offer was declined, 
on account of the opposition of my intended wife's 
friends. After this, a second proposition, of a similar 
nature, was made to me, but, for similar reasons as before, 
I again declined, and Lord Dorchester sailed without me. 
The design of countenancing Presbyterianism in Canada, 
with equal privileges with those enjoyed by Episcopa- 
lianism, has, I believe, from that time, been abandoned." 

On the nineteenth of June, just a century ago next week. 
Dr. Blatchford set sail from Exmouth, Devonshire, for 
New York, which they reached after a voyage of forty- 
three days. 

After various experiences, strange, some of them pain- 
ful to one who had been familiar only with the settled 
customs of Old England, he found his first settlement at 
Bedford, New York, whence in 1796 he was invited to 
Connecticut. The interesting and important relation 
subsisting between the parish of Stratfield, to which Dr. 
Blatchford was called, and the Bridgeport church, as 
presented at this celebration, as also the references to the 
distinguished ancestor of the honored President of Yale 
Universit}', who graces this anniversary with his presence 
and words, prompts me to read one more passage from 
this autobiographical sketch : 



—92— 

" Early in the succeeding year, 1796, I received an invi- 
tation to spend a Sabbath at Greenfield, Fairfield County, 
Connecticut, where was settled the late Reverend Dr. 
Dwight, who, by a display of talents of the very first 
order, diligence, a fine and cultivated taste, and an untar- 
nished character for piety and zeal in his Master's cause, 
had secured to himself a high reputation. My preaching 
in this place elicited from the church and congregation an 
invitation to preach for them, and the following commu- 
nication was forwarded to me: "At a meeting legally 
warned and held in the parish of Greenfield, the ist day 
of April, 1796 — Daniel Sherwood, Moderator. Voted 
unanimously, to invite the Reverend Mr. Blatchford, for 
one year, to preach for said parish. Voted, to give Mr. 
Blatchford £160 currency, for his services for said year. 
Voted, to give Mr. Blatchford $20, to defray his expenses 
in removing to Greenfield. Hezekiah Bradley, Society's 
Clerk." After taking the advice of m}' brethren, and 
spreading the whole affair before the throne of Divine 
Grace, for direction in the path of duty, I came to the res- 
olution of accepting their invitation, with the privilege of 
being bound by this agreement no longer than six months, 
if any circumstances should occur to render my removal 
desirable. During this period, I was introduced to my 
excellent friend Dr. Dwight, who requested me, whenever 
I came to New Haven, to make his house my home. I 
was present at the Commencement of Yale College next 
ensuing, and, at the request of gentlemen belonging to 
the United Society of Whitehaven and Fairhaven, which 
pulpits were then vacant, I preached for them a few Sab- 
baths, in exchange. An intimation was then given that it 
would be desirable, if it might be done consistently, that 
I should yield my engagement in Greenfield, and take 
into consideration the wishes of the people thus infor- 
mall}' expressed. This request I thought it my duty not 
to comply with. I accordingly continued at Greenfield. 

Early in the year 1797, I received the following extracts 
from the records of the proceedings of the Presbyterian 
Society at Stratfield, Connecticut : " At a meeting of the 



—93— 

members of the Presbyterian Society at Stratfield, Conn., 
legally warned and held at their meeting house, February 
15th, 1797, Joseph Strong, Esq., Moderator, a motion is 
made, whether the society wish to call a candidate for set- 
tlement in the ministr}'. Voted, the}^ do. Voted, that 
Richard Hubbell, Deacon Seth Seel3-e, Stephen Summers, 
Aaron Hawley, Benjamin Wheeler, and Lambert Lock- 
wood be a committee to look out for a candidate and make 
report. Voted, this meeting adjourn until Monda}^ next, 
at 4 o'clock, P. M." " February 20th, 1797. Met again, 
agreeable to adjournment. Moderator being absent, 
voted, that Capt. Amos Hubbell be Moderator pro tem. 
Motioned, that, from specimens we have had, we admire 
the Reverend Mr. Blatchford as a preacher, and wish for 
further opportunit}' to determine whether it may not ap- 
pear for mutual good that he take charge of this church 
and society as pastor. Voted unanimously. Motioned, 
that our committee for the purpose of looking out a can- 
didate be, and they hereby are, recommended to said Mr. 
Blatchford, with directions to offer him at the rate of $500 
for one year, commencing his labors with us next spring ; 
and, further, we agree, that if, after his being with us six 
months, we do not mutuall)' covenant with him on some 
more permanent footing, he may either leave us then or 
continue through the year. Voted unanimousl}^ Meet- 
ing adjourned without day. A true copy from the 
records. Lambert Lockwood, Clerk." 

Of his ministry here statements made indicate a life of 
labor and enjoyment. He writes : 

" I had also succeeded the Reverend Dr. Da}', the 
present President of Yale College, as instructor in an 
academy at Greenfield, and, previous to my formal 
acceptance of the invitation from Stratfield, I made some 
stipulations with the committee from thence, other than 
those expressed in the call — such as, building an edifice 
proper for an academy, as I was desirous of instructing 
some 3'outh in classical literature, as an additional means 
of support for m}' numerous family. These arrangements 
being made, I removed to Stratfield. I succeeded in my 



—94— 

plans, and the school flourished. I was installed by the 
Association of Fairfield East, and we all felt happy in our 
new situation. We occupied a house situated in the 
western part of the town, commonly called Stratfield or 
Pequonic." 

In January, 1804, Dr. Blatchford received an invitation 
to take charge of the Presbyterian churches of Lansing- 
burgh and Waterford, New York. After much consider- 
ation he accepted the call. He writes : 

" The field of usefulness was more extended than the 
one in which I was then laboring, and the means of sup- 
port more ample, which, on account of my large family, 
was exceedingly desirable." (He was the father of 
seventeen children, of whom twelve reached mature 
years.) In this sketch he speaks warmly of his relations 
with this church, and the Associations of Fairfield East 
and West, making affectionate mention of " Drs. Edwards, 
Trumbull, Ely, and Ripley, together with Messrs. Eliot, 
Stebbins, Pinneo, Rexford, and Huntington (of Middle- 
town), also Drs. Perkins, Lewis, Burnet, Shea and many 
others, and among those toward whom the sense of obliga- 
tion must remain, while kindness can make any impres- 
sion on my heart." 

After an honored ministry in the churches of Lansing- 
burgh and Waterford, of twenty-four years on March 17, 
1828, Samuel Blatchford went to his eternal home, dying 
as he had lived, in the firm hope of a triumphant entrance 
upon a blessed immortality. He was honored by the 
church, of which he was the faithful pastor, b^' the acad- 
emy, of which he was the able and successful principal, 
by Union College, of which he was an instructor and head 
of the Examining Board, and by the denomination, from 
which he received the highest tokens of respect and 
regard. 

My father, John Blatchford, who filled this pulpit from 
1829 to 1836, was the sixth son and tenth child of Samuel 
Blatchford, and was born at Newfield (now Bridgeport) 
on May 24, 1799, during his father's pastorate here. At 
the age of seventeen he was converted and united with 



—95— 

the Presbyterian Church of Lansingburgh, under his 
father's ministr}-. He graduated from Union College, 
Schenectady, in 1820, and in '23 from the Seminary at 
Princeton. After brief pastorates at Pittstown, and Still- 
water, New York, in 1829 he accepted a call to this 
church in his native place, twenty-five years after his 
father had closed his ministry here. 

Of the six years as pastor of this church I have no 
written records. My boyhood memory, however, brings 
before me many a picture which throws a halo about 
persons and places associated with this life. These mem- 
ories, fragmentary though they be, are summoned back 
b}' many names familiar to me on the long roll-call of this 
church. Hubbell, Hawley, Beardsley, Sherwood, Ster- 
ling, Thacher, Wheeler, Wordin, Burton, Burr, Thomp- 
son and Baldwin. 

Up to the end of their lives, my father and mother ever 
cherished tender memories of their Bridgeport life ; and 
the kindness ever experienced was often the theme in our 
family circle. 

Permit me two reminiscences of these early years, first 
the death of a beautiful brother, next me in age — ni)' first 
grief — the m3'stery of death — death entering our own 
little nursery. And with it too, assuaging its bitterness, 
the memor}' of tenderest S3'mpathy poured out like a ben- 
ediction by the members of this church. 

The second — a grief too, but different — a parting with 
an infant-school teacher, tenderl}' loved — who was mar- 
ried in this church to Rev. Mr. Armstrong, then under 
appointment of the American Board as Missionary to the 
Sandwich Islands. How my young heart swelled almost 
to bursting at that parting ! It was a memorable gift 
Christianity gave to Heathendom in Armstrong. You 
all remember the glorious work he did in those islands in 
church and state, and the noble gift — a gift no words can 
measure — sent back by those parents to their native land 
— the patriot soldier, the devoted philanthropist, the 
friend of the negro and the Indian — General Armstrong 
of Hampton. 



-96- 

In 1836, after a successful pastorate of about seven 
years, the state of my mother's health rendered a change 
of climate imperative. The ph3'sicians recommended 
Southern France for her difficulty, which was of a pul- 
monary character, but she was judged too feeble to 
endure the voyage across the Atlantic, consequently a 
change to the West was decided upon, where for forty 
years, sheltered by the care of husband and children, she 
lived a life of activity, usefulness and happiness. 

It was in its early formative period that my father 
removed to the West. He carried with him the training, 
discipline, and practical power obtained during the 
pastorates of his early manhood. And he made them 
operative and fruitful in ministerial and educational work, 
as the first installed pastor of the Presb3'terian Church in 
Chicago, as acting president of Illinois College, the oldest 
college in the State, and later as President of Marion 
College in Northern Missouri. His genial, sympathetic 
nature attracted to him friends wherever he lived, and his 
persuasive power in the pulpit was marked. Overwork, 
during a revival in Chicago in 1839 and '40, protracted 
during many weeks, seriously impaired his health. His 
nearest ministerial neighbor was ninety miles away, and 
the burden of the frequent services on Sabbath and during 
the week was too severe. He never fully regained vigor- 
ous health, though he was able to accomplish much during 
many succeeding years. He died at the home of his 
daughter in St. Louis, on April 8, 1855. His remains rest 
in the beautiful cemetery at Quincy, Illinois, overlooking- 
the Mississippi's mighty flow. 

I read the closing passage from the discourse preached 
at my father's funeral by the Rev. Dr. Post, of St. Louis : 
" The painful malady of which he died was of two months' 
duration. Its course was marked by the most intense 
suffering to which disease can expose man. But, through 
all, his faith, his patience, his trust and submission, 
through Christ we believe, that strengthened him, never 
failed. The Angel of the Covenant, 'one like to the Son 
of God,' went through the furnace with him. His mind 



—97— 

was perfectly tranquil, perfectly at rest. All was peace. 
On Sunday, the last day of his life, a few hours before his 
death, he followed through the reading of the twenty- 
third Psalm by his son, with much manifest comfort, and, 
with frequent responses, indicated his appreciation and 
enjoyment of it. A short time before he died, the spirit 
that seemed to have gone far down the dark valley, never 
to return, came back once more, and looked out in clear 
intelligence from that eye which then was closing forever. 
In the stillness of that awful moment, I said to him, 
'Brother, do you feel the Savior near you? Does He 
sustain you ? ' He answered, with a most meaning look 
of the eye, a repeated pressure of the hand, and attempted 
murmurs from his palsied mouth, ' Yes, yes.' This, friends, 
was the last testimony of our beloved brother — the last 
words of John Blatchford to this world, till the heavens 
and the earth be no more. Ages shall not add thereto, 
nor can they substract from it." 

Truly, " The Memory of the Fathers is the Inspiration 
of the Children." 

" Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; and His 
greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise 
thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts." 



THE SERVICE OF LEARNING, THE SERVICE 
OF THE CHURCHES. 

Rev. Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., New Haven. 

Dr. Palmer : My friends, it is remarkable that while 
having a long list of ministers upon our rolls, we have no 
living ex-minister here to-day. Only one is living and he 
too feeble to be here. But there is a tradition vvhich I 
am going to tell you. After Dr. Towne ended his 
ministry here, the church were looking for a new pastor, 
and there was a young man of great promise who bore an 
honored name, whom it was understood might be avail- 
able, and the church set their hearts upon him, and he, I 
7 



-98- 

am told, was quite willing to come, except that, just at 
that momfcnt, the Corporation of Yale laid hands upon 
him for a professorship in the Divinity School. 

Now I remember in the bur3ing-ground of the town 
in which several of my ancestors originated a monument 
with this inscription, " Sacred to the memory of" — giving 
a lady's name, date, and so on — " who ought to have been 
the wife of Thomas Palmer." It is understood that the 
stone was erected by the gentleman, and not by the 
friends of the lady. I am going to borrow that quaint 
phrase and introduce Dr. D wight as the man who ought 
to have been the minister of this church. But you will 
appreciate how much more extensive and valuable have 
been the services to this church and to the churches of 
the United States which he has rendered in the position 
to which God called him. Yale men honor him as the 
beloved head of their University; a large number of 
ministers honor him as a teacher and counsellor, and we 
all honor him, — for what he is and has done ; and I especi- 
ally from my heart honor the beloved friend of more than 
forty years, who has consented at a great sacrifice to be 
here to-day, to speak a few words to us. I will introduce 
him. (Loud applause.) 

Dr. DwiGHT: Dr. Palmer, ladies and gentlemen of 
this church and of this city — One of the most striking 
exhibitions of the business capacity and power over men 
possessed by your pastor, which I have in my mind, is the 
fact that I am here. (Laughter.) In some unguarded 
moment, a few months ago Dr. Palmer informed me he 
and you were to have this celebration, and said he hoped 
I would be a participator in it. As a friend, I told him I 
would endeavor to be here. I had no expectation of being 
called upon to address you. At the close of last week I 
received a note from him saying that I was the only sur- 
viving predecessor of his with the exception of one, who 
was unable to be present ; and that he had concluded to 
put me upon the programme ; and I wrote back that with 
the immense pressure of duties devolving upon the 



—99— 

president of the university, it being just before Commence- 
ment, that I could not be here to take any part in these 
services. The next morning I received the programme 
printed with my name on the list, and I am here. 
This looks to me more like Presbyterianism, or the 
historic Episcopate, than democratic Congregationalism. 
(Laughter.) 

Dr. Palmer told me I was the only predecessor of his, 
with one exception, who is now living. Allow me to say 
a few words on this subject. In the first place, I have 
been casting about in my mind on one side of the matter 
to know which of his predecessors I was. (Laughter.) 
It has been a peculiar experience of mine in my life that 
I have been mistaken for many eminent persons; and I 
came to the conclusion, after much thought, I was the 
Rev. Charles Chauncey (laughter), but that was dissipated 
and my hope was broken from its foundation by hearing 
Prof. Fisher was the Rev. Charles Chauncey. (Renewed 
laughter.) 

The succession of your ministers, one after another, I 
do not know, but I would say that 1 came here, so far as 
my recollection goes, after the sentinels at the door had 
been dismissed, and after these muskets had been removed 
(laughter), and so it was not in the earliest period of the 
church. If I may look at another side of my relation to this 
church I would say that my pastorate here commenced 
on Saturday evening, in the 3-ear 1858, and terminated to 
the satisfaction of the congregation on Sunday evening 
(laughter), and so far as I was m.yself concerned, I had 
one happy deliverance (laughter). I expected to come to 
this church with the sensation and feeling of a candidate. 
I was invited to be here on a particular Sunday — by 
reason of an engagement elsewhere I was unable to come 
on that Sunday, or else by reason of some other arrange- 
ment here the engagement for me was postponed till the 
next Sunday ; and I was elected to an office in the Yale 
Divinity School, in the intermediate week between the 
two Sunda3's, and I concluded to accept that offer and 
election; and I have therefore never had, — though I came 



— lOO — 

so near having them, — the sensations which belong to a 
candidate for a pastorate. 

This church was one of those who have sought my 
services to which I would most gladl}^ have come at the 
time, but I was called into another service ; and Dr. 
Palmer has assigned me some words on "The Service of 
Learning, the Service of the Churches" to address to 
you this morning. I will onl}' say that the relationship 
between the churches and the school of learning, in 
our country, in our New England especially, from the 
beginning has been a very close relation. Our fathers 
and their descendants had no thought of the churches as 
fulfilling their duty without the establishment of the 
school of learning; and they had no thought of the 
schools of learning except as operated and influenced by 
the churches ; and they committed the care of their edu- 
cation largely to those who were the ministers of the 
church ; and the glory of our New England colleges has 
been largely connected, in all periods of the past, with 
the fact that the pastors of these churches^ — like 3'our 
present pastor — have been connected with the adminis- 
tration and government of our New England colleges. 

The service of the University which I represent this 
morning to the churches, and in an humble way mj' own 
service to the churches, I may say has been manifested in 
this place. The number of ministers who have come to 
this place, and to the towns which really are closely con- 
nected with this church, is very considerable. Dr. 
Palmer was made by me largely, excepting so far as his 
father and mother had a slight influence upon him; and 
the honored pastor of the South Church, who has recently 
left you, was one of those whom I sent here, as a partial 
fulfilment of my duty to this church, and there are others 
here in whose labors I have rejoiced, and certainly the 
city of Bridgeport has been closely related in these past 
years with the school of learning in which I have had a 
small share. I trust that the Institution aiul the churches 
of Connecticut will continue in the same happy relations 
in the future; that the churches will supply to the Insti- 



— lOI — 

tution of learning their sons and their kindly influences in 
all coming time; and that the institution of learning will 
do for the churches and the State what it has done in the 
generations past. 

I express my thanks to Dr. Palmer for insisting upon 
my saying a word to you, for it is very pleasant for me to 
recall the incidents of my short pastorate here, and very 
pleasant to see the church in the flourishing condition in 
which it now is; and I wish to assure you of my kindest 
personal feeling to you all, and to assure Dr. Palmer, 
though he does not need it, that the friendship of forty 
years is as strong on my part as it is on his. (Loud 
applause.) 



THE DEBT OF A COMiMUNITY TO ITS 
FOUNDERS. 

Hon. Joseph Hawley, LL.D., U. S. Senate. 

Dr. Palmer: President Dwight called me up a great 
many times in earlier years. I did not feel it to be very 
presumptuous to call him up when I got a chance. 

Brethren and friends, when we originally planned this 
celebration, we were made very conscious of the riches of 
this church in the way of biography, and a number of 
illustrations of it came to our knowledge, but in the matu- 
rity of our arrangements we have given less attention to 
that than we originally projected. Samuel Sherman, who 
came here about 1685, was an ancestor of Gen. Sherman 
and of the Hon. John Sherman, U. S. senator from Ohio. 
We had hoped to have him present to-day among others. 
We have a letter of regret from him, other engagements 
having prevented his coming. 

Among the early settlers of this locality was Joseph 
Hawley. The second deacon of this church was Deacon 
Hawley. There is no family who has contributed more 
largely, contributed more generously, to the history of 
this church and the South Church. There is no family 



— 102 — 

which is more numerously represented here, or which was 
connected more honorably with the trying times in the 
history of the community than the families descending 
from Joseph Hawley. And above all we have present 
with us to-day a man whom Connecticut always delights 
to honor, and we are glad he is here as the representative 
of his family and has consented to unite with us in this 
celebration. I have the pleasure of presenting him to you 
at this time. Senator Hawley will now address us. 

Senator Hawley : Dr. Palmer and fellow-citizens — 
The manner of Dr. Dwight's impressment here is exactly 
mine. I received a suggestion concerning a great celebra- 
tion—like his very much ; and then I received a notice that 
I was down for a certain subject, and I am here ; and 
pay my willing tribute to the power of Dr. Palmer in 
addition to Dr. Dvvight. I knew it would be interesting, 
but it is a great deal more than that. It is inspiring, when 
a man has any pride in the history of New England and 
this beloved State of Connecticut. 1 have seen in much 
more ambitious celebrations nothing more inspiring than 
the sight of the representatives of nine of the original col- 
onist families. Mr. Beardsley, I think it was, is perfectly 
right in saying that this is a celebration of the two hun- 
dredth anniversary of the cit)' of Bridgeport. Your begin- 
ning was like that of the great majorit}' of the New Eng- 
land towns, especially the Connecticut towns. There were 
three men especially known. One was the pastor, another 
the school teacher and the third the Militia captain ; and 
in all the days of trouble, when the great Brother Jona- 
than desired to retain the hearts of the people, he reached 
them, perhaps more easily than in any other way, through 
the pastors of all these scattered towns and country 
churches. They were men of very considerable educa- 
tion, men of strong character, of marked and positive 
characteristics, and didn't have a doubt about what was 
right and wrong respecting their country or their God. 
Then they had not heard of the word "agnostic"; and 
when Brother Jonathan wanted the people he reached 



— 103— 

them through the school master, and the militia captain, 
and the pastor — and through the pastor most of all. 

I think it is Macaulay — -I have read it somewhere lately 
— who says that the people who do not honor the noble 
deeds of their ancestors will leave no record of deeds of 
their own that their posterity will care to honor. It is to 
our honor that we honor the men who founded Connecti- 
cut. A young Grecian, who afterwards became a famous 
general himself, passing over some battle-field where heroes 
had once contended, said, " Every young man should 
come here ! " If it were possible, what a joy it would 
be to have all the young men and the young women 
just coming into maturity in this State hear and read 
these inspiring records. Yes, these anniversaries ought 
to be observed by ever}- community in the State. I re- 
joice to have seen several such celebrations ; I rejoice over 
the monuments they have put up, and the volumes they 
have printed, giving a history of the early settlers. These 
celebrations are of great value in that respect; and let us 
feel encouraged by them. Sometimes we are discouraged 
a little and think that the old-fashioned Americanism is 
getting out of fashion. We look at the census and find 
more than half of our people here are either foreigners by 
birth or the children of one or two foreign parents. It is 
not to be endured that the ancient spirit, the belief, the 
earnest belief in something, the absolute, unquestioning 
devotion to one's country as well as one's God — it is not 
to be endured or allowed that these things shall fade away. 
Let us feel encouraged by many things. The Daughters 
and the Sons of the Revolution, the Colonial Dames, the 
other Colonial organization, whose name I do not recall 
at this particular moment, are movements in the right 
direction. The monuments they are putting up in various 
places, the investigations of these ancient historical mat- 
ters they set on foot — these are great reminders of the old 
Puritanism and the old Colonial and Revolutionary patriot- 
ism — and there has been no reason within the last thirty 
or forty years to think any less of our country than we 
did before. (Cheers and applause.) The Puritans were not 



— 104 — 

a race of people nor were they a religious faction. Puri- 
tanism is not an}- particular class of men, it is a tj'pe of 
character. Puritanism is a character. These men were 
mostly of fine old English stock, mingled, I think, to some 
extent with the good Dutch stock that came over into the 
eastern counties of England, but it was not because they 
happened to be Englishmen that they were Puritans. 
There have been Puritans essentially elsewhere ; the 
Huguenots, the Quakers, or Friends, and many more. 
What finer illustration could there be of an absolute devo- 
tion to God and to the love of country and of right than 
we see in Luther? Luther was a Puritan in this sense of 
the word ; so was Loyala the Jesuit, the founder of that 
great order. He was a reformer, as he thought, in the 
Catholic Church, and a man who had the most absolute 
devotion to the highest ideals of right. How beneficial, 
or how mistaken he was, it is not necessary to say. You 
do both men only justice if you consider their fidelity and 
their belief in something outside of and above and beyond 
themselves. It seems to me that in respect of their high 
sense of duty, the Mahommedans, in their da3'S of purity 
and glory, were one class of Puritans. 

There is a good deal in these latter days to make one 
uneasy and critical ; the large class of men who are cos- 
mopolitans in every country but their own, who are very 
much at home abroad, always thinking that things are 
better done over there ; and who in the great struggles 
going on here are saying, political or ecclesiastical, or 
whatever it is they may be, " I don't think much of this 
thing," "I doubt the wisdom of that matter," " I think it 
is largely a matter of interest with them all whether in 
church or in state"; and "on the whole I take no part in 
these things." " I never meddle with politics, I don't 
meddle vei"y much with religion, and there is nothing 
new, and there is nothing true, and it does not matter 
anyhow." 

There is a great deal of that sort of agnosticism in polit- 
ical and church affairs which does not come from the 
Puritans. When they believed, they believed in their 



—105— 

very bones. It was like fire in them. The}^ were not long 
in doubt, either, whether there was an Omnipotent and 
Eternal God and Father, who invited them to be His chil- 
dren, but who commanded them to fight, who sent them 
into the world to do something and to be something, not 
to be sitting on the lence listless, but to grapple in with 
their sleeves rolled up, taking their share in all the mag- 
nificent work that was going on. 

This is a glorious age. There never was one like it. 
There never were so many demands for industrious men 
and women ; and I add again that there never was a time 
when so many of them are realizing the fact. It is a great 
realization of a glorious time. Our boys should be faith- 
ful to the ancestors whom we honor, and imitate their 
example, and make their stay in the world worth some- 
thing. I believe with Macaulay, if we don't respect and 
love our ancestors for the work they did, we will leave 
nothing behind us that the people hereafter ought to 
respect. (Applause.) 

My record in Connecticut is a modest one. I am 
descended from Samuel Hawde}' of Stratford, I am not cer- 
tain whether of the seventh or eighth generation. The 
Hawleys have been all about Fairfield County. They are 
still, I am happ3' to say, about here ; and we are all cousins 
in some degree or other, I never inquired, for it is a ver)- 
serious job ; but I am not ashamed of the name, straight 
down yeoman in the English sense, the owner of lands 
and the cultivator of lands, except my father, who was a 
modest preacher of the gospel and a member of the Gen- 
eral Assembly for a long time. I am very glad to be with 
30U to give, if it be possible, even a moment of satisfac- 
tion. (Loud applause.) 

Dr. Palmer: Now, friends, before any of you leave, I 
wish to say that over in the incomplete Masonic building, 
yonder, there is a luncheon provided, and when we are 
through with the exercises of this morning, all will be fed 
who find it convenient to go thither. 



— io6 — 

There is a point of considerable importance to which I 
wish to direct attention at this moment, namely, the rela- 
tion of this Ecclesiastical Society to the city in which we 
live. 

The erection of the Parish of Stratfield by the General 
Court instituted the first independent authority within 
the limits of this city. In it began the organized com- 
munity which in due time was to take the now familiar 
name of Bridgeport. For more than one hundred 
years the form of the authority was unchanged. Then 
there was evolved from the Parish of Stratfield the Bor- 
ough of Bridgeport, in the year 1800. Out of this grew 
the Town of Bridgeport, in 1821 ; and out of this the City 
of Bridgeport, in 1836. In the beginning there was no 
separation between Civil and Ecclesiastical jurisdiction — 
the authorities of the Parish exercised both. Alter 1818, 
the two were of course entirel}' separated. Since then the 
town or city has been one thing, and the First Ecclesiastical 
Society another thing. But each of them legitimately 
represents, in its own line, the ancient Parish of Stratfield. 
We of the First Church and Society have invited here 
to-day the official Head of the City, as one to whom we 
sustain a special relation. Not merely as one of the 
"powers that be," whom we are bound to honor, and do 
honor, in our place, but also as one equally with ourselves 
standing upon the ancient foundations laid two hundred 
years ago. We hope that His Honor has a word of greet- 
ing for us, to which we will now listen. 

Hon. Frank E. Clark: On behalf of the City of 
Bridgeport, I extend to you most hearty congratulations. 
To the founders of this church and to their descendants, 
the citizens of Bridgeport are greatly indebted ; through 
their efforts and examples our prosperity has been largely 
made possible. 

Our local, state and national history glistens with the 
names of Sherwood, Sherman, Wheeler and Beardslc}'. 

Two hundred years ago, when that little band congre- 
gated for divine worship in the little village of Stratfield, 
they marked the beginning of our prosperous city. 



— 107 — 

From a sparsely settled community, through the age of 
boroughhood, up to the full bloom of a magnificent city, 
can we trace the noble work of the First Congregational 
Church and Society. 

Without resorting to the sensationalisms of to-day, 
your ministers have accomplished a vast deal to be proud 
of, in their plain, simple wa}'. Under their guidance, cit- 
izens of whom we all feel proud have been reared. The 
lessons which they instilled into the hearts of the young 
have borne fruit a hundred-fold. You have an abundance 
of reasons for rejoicing on this, your two-hundredth birth- 
da)'. I feel that I would be derelict in my duty as Chief 
Executive of this city, should I fail to express our thanks 
to you, to rejoice with you and to thank the Almighty for 
the man}' blessings which He has bestowed upon us all. 
(Applause.) 

Dr. Palmer : I have here a list which I am going to 
read. 1 hold in my hand a bundle of letters from those 
who would have been glad to be here, but for various 
reasons were prevented from coming. I wish simply to 
mention some of them in order that it may be truthfully 
said the letters were presented here, and they will be 
printed in the official account of this meeting. The list 
comprises the following : 

Hon. John Sherman, U. S. S. 

Dr. Chauncey M. Depew, New York City. 

Dr. John W. Sterling, New York City. 

Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Towne, New York City. 

Rev. Dr. George Leon Walker, Hartford. 

Prof. Henry A. Rowland, Johns Hopkins University. 

Rev. Alfred T. Waterman, Michigan. 

Rev. Charles H. Peck, No. Bennington, Vt. 

Rev. Dr. Horace C. Hovey, Newburyport, Mass. 

Mr. David Sherman Lacey, California. 

Mrs. Mary Dudley Wilcox, Lawrenceville, N. Y. 



— io8— 

Miss Julia E. Hunter, New York City. 

Rev. J. J. Wooley, Pawtucket, R. 1. 

Mr. Joseph D. Bartley, Bradford, Mass. 

Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler, Yale University. 

Mr. Waiter Hubbell, New York. 

Rev. Dr. Henry Blodget, Missionary to China. 

Dr. Gerald H. Beard, Norwalk. 

(For the letters see p. 157 and following.) 

Dr. Palmer : I feel very thankful to all the gentlemen 
who have taken the pains to speak to us this morning ; 
and certainly feel gratified by the interest which has been 
manifested in this celebration. I hope that this afternoon 
we may again assemble, for the remainder of the pro- 
gramme, in which I expect to find great satisfaction and 
enjoyment. After the singing a recess will be taken, that 
all may refresh themselves, and I renew the invitation to 
all present to avail themselves ot the luncheon. It is in 
the incomplete Masonic Building opposite. 

The choir will now lead us in singing hymn 1019, " O, 
where are kings and empires now ?" 

Benediction. 

The love of God the Father, the grace of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with 
vou forever. Amen. 



SERVICES OF 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 

"Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot?" 
Organ Prelude. 

Anthem, " Praise the Lord." 

Dr. Palmer : Before resuming our exercises I am going 
to give a brief notice. The collection of relics in the 
chapel has excited so much interest and is really so well 
worth seeing, that arrangements have been made to keep 
it open this evening. So far as any may feel interested in 
extending this information I wish it might be done. I 
repeat, the room will be open this afternoon after service, 
and also in the evening till lo o'clock. 

While speaking of relics I have been asked to state a 
fact, which is known to some but not to all. The flag 
which is over this pulpit is the one which was used in the 
unveiling of the John Robinson Memorial at Leyden four 
years ago. It is thought some would be interested to 
know of that connection. I brought out the fact yester- 
day that the beginning of this settlement was in a move- 
ment of Fairfield and Stratford families towards this 
locality ; and I showed that the First Church was formed 
of men who came from the Fairfield and Stratford 
churches. We are this afternoon very glad that repre- 
sentatives of the Fairfield and Stratford churches are 
here ; and we are going to hear from them. 1 am glad to 



introduce my brother, for whom I have the highest esteem 
— the pastor of the First Church in Fairfield — as the first 
speaker this afternoon. 

WORDS FROM THE MOTHER CHURCHES. 

(i) First Church in Fairfield. 

Rev. Frank S. Child. 

Rev. Mr. Child : Honored shepherd of this flock, 
members of this and other flocks— I cannot follow the 
example set us by the rector of St. John's Parish and 
bring you a brick from St. Martins-in-the-Field. Did 
every traveler carry away a brick from so small a shrine, 
what would become of St. Martins-in-the-Field? 

But I do bring you a treasure which centres in itself 
associations and memories sacred to the mother and the 
daughter church. It is this silver cup which has been 
used for more than two centuries in the celebration of the 
Holy Communion in old Fairfield Church. The name 
inscribed upon this vessel is that of the Rev. Samuel 
Wakeman, pastor of your ancestors as well as of ours. 
He it was, 3'ou remember, that favored 3'our first school 
enterprise. He it was that abounded in helpful counsel 
and tender sympathy when this parish was set off from 
Fairfield and Stratford. 

Many of the first settlers of this place, and their imme- 
diate descendants have, doubtless, pressed their lips to 
this memorial cup and received strength and inspiration 
through such a service for the toil and burden of those 
early days. 

When Garfield was inaugurated president of tiie United 
States, his venerable mother was present to witness the 
ceremon}'. The oath of ofSce had been administered, the 
address given ; then the loyal son turned to his mother 
and imprinted a kiss upon her brow. It was a memorable 
scene. Who doubts that the mother's heart swelled with 
honorable pride and generous aflfection, as she recalled the 
great work achieved by her famous son ! 



— 1 1 1 — 

It is with sentiments akin to these that the Prime 
Ancient Society of Fairfield, the two-thirds mother of the 
First Church in Bridgeport; (for in the original members 
of the new parish thirty-three families came from Fair- 
field and thirteen from Stratford ;) it is with sentiments 
akin to these that the First Church of Fairfield, the two- 
thirds mother of the First Church of Bridgeport, sends 
greeting and congratulation on this anniversary. 

We have listened with maternal interest to the narrative 
of church-life flowing like a strong and grateful river 
through two hundred years of time. Just as the great 
streams of earth bear refreshment to the land, adorn and 
exalt nature, serve many practical ends and scatter bene- 
dictions all along the way, binding times and interests and 
events into a kind of noble oneness ; so has the stream of 
life named the First Church of Christ in Bridgeport 
pursued its path through the generations, yielding refresh- 
ment, beautifying character, diffusing blessings, making 
the past an inspiration, filling the present with the fruits 
of righteousness and quickening great hopes for the 
future, binding fast, present and future into the oneness of 
the Kingdom. 

The ministers serving this people have been marked by 
a rare spirit of fidelity. Growth and expansion have ever 
been dear to the church ; so that when another daughter 
has gone forth, she has gone forth with sweet memories 
and happy encouragements. Beneficence has been woven 
into the texture of your history. Spirituality has been 
an abiding characteristic through these decades of activ- 
ity. Splendid leadership in affairs has also been manifest. 
Now all these things belong to the mother not less than 
to the daughter. The stor}^ has oft been repeated that 
when the people of Stratfield applied to the General 
Court for the transfer of their taxes to the support of a 
church in this part of the parish, the Prime Ancient 
Society of Fairfield set forth her opposition with remark- 
able force and perspicuity. It has been said, on the other 
hand, that Stratford showed a conspicuous willingness to 
contribute her smaller proportion of people to the new 



-112- 



parish. So the reluctance of Fairfield to lose her good 
people was strikingly offset by the eagerness with which 
Stratford apparently desired to get rid of hers. It is not 
for ine to speak of this as a virtue on the part of the two- 
thirds mother on this side of the waters, or to speak of it 
as a vice on the part of the one-third mother on the other 
side of the dividing waters. But this is certainly a con- 
dition of things which admits of favorable interpretation, 
so far as Fairfield is concerned. In fact, the ties which 
bound the Prime Ancient Society of Fairfield to 
Bridgeport, Greens Farms, Greenfield Hill, Southport 
and Black Rock were always so strong and tender that it 
required all the grace which the mother could command 
to permit these daughters to shift for themselves. 

There are, as you know, cases of family affection 
where separation is almost fatal to continued peace and 
happiness. When Elizabeth Barrett left her father's 
house and made a home for herself with Robert Brown- 
ing, it broke the tender ties that had formerly existed, and 
she was never permitted to enter the father's home and 
look upon his face again. Now there was not such a 
break as this between mother church in Fairfield and 
daughter church in Bridgeport. The strained relations 
which existed for a very brief time were lovingly' 
adjusted, and there speedily manifested itself a spirit of 
helpfulness and sympathy. The Prime Ancient Society 
takes increasing satisfaction in the progress and achieve- 
ment of this beloved daughter. For the mother has given 
much of her best blood to the Stratfield Zion. The orig- 
inal members of this church were among the most worthy, 
devout and hopeful of our people. It was not alone that 
the mother lost a portion of her taxes, but it was also that 
her strength was taxed to a measure, and a good portion 
of her spiritual life was made to run into another channel. 
But when once the thing was determined the mother was 
generous. The departure of these good people meant a 
good deal to the parish. It was like the dividing of one's 
farm ; it was like a cutting down of the King's territory. 
But Fairfield gave the territory, especially since she was 



— US- 
compelled to do it; and as always, under such circum- 
stances she made the best of the situation. But the 
matter did not rest at this point, for I find, just as good 
parents continue their kindness and liberality to their 
children when the}' have made a home-roof for them- 
selves, so Fairfield continued her manifold gifts to 
Stratfield or Newfield or Bridgeport. 

A cursory view of our church records and our town 
records reveals the fact that when the male members of 
the daughter church wanted life-companions the}' had a 
way of coming to the mother church and winning the 
hearts of the maidens. And not satisfied with this kind 
of contribution, I find also that the fair ladies of the 
daughter church captivated the sturdy gentlemen of 
Fairfield and time out of mind persuaded them to come 
over into the latter settlement and make their home. 

We cannot claim the first minister, Mr. Chauncey, 
although he was made a freeman of Fairfield, but his 
first better-half was a Fairfield product. These were 
days when people devoutly believed that they should 
marry and give in marriage. The indebtedness of 
Bridgeport's first church to one of our families cannot 
be measured. Fairfield had a way of putting the Burrs 
into all sorts of responsible positions. Was a colonel or a 
general wanted, did Princeton desire a president of the 
college or the United States a vice-president for the 
senate, there was a Burr for the position. 

But these are not the only honors which came to the 
family. Now and again some Burr man was made judge, 
sat upon the bench and pronounced sentence upon pris- 
oners ; while ever and anon some Burr woman was made 
judge, sat upon another kind of bench and pronounced 
sentence upon a more agreeable sort of prisoner. The 
pastors of the Bridgeport church were repeatedly brought 
into this latter court before different Burr judges and 
sentence pronounced upon them was ever the same. 
And the sentence was always executed. 

When Lyman Hall discovered that preaching did not 
agree with his mental health, he left your parish and 



— 114— 

came to Fairfield. The natural thing for him to do was 
to court and marry a Burr, daughter of one Thaddeus 
and sister of another Thaddeus. And when Mr. Lyman 
discovered that teaching in Fairfield did not agree with 
his mental health he wisely emigrated to Georgia. He 
found his sphere and made an immortal name. But it is 
not too much to say that both these parishes shared the 
training of this eminent man and directly contributed 
something toward his power. Doubtless, the instructions 
in penmanship which he gave and practiced while teach- 
ing in Fairfield, had much to do with that characteristic 
signature appended to the Declaration of Independence. 
It is proper to note in passing that Mr. Lyman did not 
have the same inducements to teach school as did one of 
your pastors. Mr. Blatchford, with his seventeen chil- 
dren, was always sure of a full session, no matter what 
the weather. And however much the various pupils 
might object to his methods of teaching and his peculiar 
discipline, there were seventeen pupils, or thereabouts, 
whose parents never made complaints and were inclined 
to make the best of the instruction. 

Coming down to later times, I find that the indebted- 
ness of this church to the mother assumes a new form. 
Having given good men and women, having supplied the 
ministry with notable helpmates, having passed over 
more or less of territory, the day comes when Fairfield 
prepares a preacher for this parish and sends him forth 
to stamp his individuality upon the people. 

Mr. Hunter was a man of certain remarkable gifts. 
Judge Sherman was his intimate friend and loving coun- 
sellor. The young preacher had his wits sharpened by 
many a tilt with the famous statesman, who was a deacon 
in the Fairfield church and always present to give his pas- 
tor the benefit of his generous criticism and his loving 
inspiration. But with all his helpful intentions, the judge 
was not able to curb Mr. Hunter's impulsive spirit. So 
that it was not many years ere this minister graduated 
from the schooling of the mother church and Judge Sher- 
man. His spicy wit left a pungent odor which still lin- 



—115— 

gers in Fairfield. When this briUiant, eccentric man 
came to the North Church of Bridgeport, he brought with 
him a fine and commanding intellectual equipment. But 
there interblended with such equipment those peculiari- 
ties of constitution which time had emphasized rather 
than softened, so that like unforgetable impressions were 
made upon the daughter church not less than upon the 
mother. His ministry in the two parishes, remembered 
with mingled emotions of laughter and tears, approval 
and condemnation, is an interesting and suggestive bond 
between mother and daughter. 

Along the same line of generosity it is fitting to say that 
the Prime Ancient Society of Fairfield extended her favor 
to your daughter and her granddaughter, the South 
Church. Dr. Hewitt came to Fairfield fresh from the 
School of the Prophets. He spent ten years of splendid, 
consecrated service among us, learning those important 
lessons in preaching and shepherd work which a man ought 
always to learn in his first parish. When he had devel- 
oped his masterful resources and finished a very faithful 
apprenticeship, lie entered upon the delicate, onerous task 
of shaping the life of the 3'oung South Church. Again 
there were formed ties indissoluble, which bound the old 
and the new into oneness of sympathy and experience. 
So pleased and helped by such gifts was the city of Bridge- 
port, that she finally sought, not only the strength of the 
mother church, but the presence of our law and justice in 
the form of court house and jail. The same sort of 
reluctance featured the gift of these institutions as was 
manifest when the old parish was compelled to pass over 
thirt3'-three families to the new and form the North 
Church. But the mother, with her accustomed wit and 
grace, observed complacently, after the thing was done, 
that it was precisely the thing for her to do, so that she 
again accepted the inevitable with a dignity of submission 
both exemplary and beautiful. 

It was natural to think that relations being so intimate 
and the daughter continuing to draw upon the vitality of 
the mother, a period would be reached when a sense of 



— ii6— 

grateful indebtedness must develop and some conspicuous 
liberality express appreciation of such long-continued 
indulgence. But wherein do we discover the signs of 
gratitude? Is it when more territory is demanded? Is 
it when the old parish again and again shares with the 
new the sacred associations of the past? Is it when one 
after another of our people become absorbed into the busy 
life of the growing city ? Did we look at the matter from 
this narrow and selfish point of view, small signs of grati- 
tude would be detected. But we are lain to confess that 
such is not a fair way of putting it. For we observe that 
there has existed and there continues to exist a beautiful 
spirit of generosity on the part of this First Church of 
Bridgeport. She gathers strength unto herself, she 
draws upon the resources of the mother, she looks to the 
Fairfield parish for various kinds of substantial encour- 
agement, simply that she may multiply her own daugh- 
ters, enlarge her growing usefulness, give the first mother 
the dignity and happiness of granddaughters, quicken 
into a more expansive life among us the kingdom of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. This is a form of gratitude most 
precious and ennobling. The mother rejoices that the 
daughter abounds in the many generous sacrifices and 
happy reduplications of life manifest in the spiritual his- 
tory of Bridgeport. And that which has been is inter- 
preted as an earnest of that which is to be — years and 
generations of an illustrious past to reproduce themselves 
though coming time in work and character instinct with 
the Spirit of God. 

Daughter Church of Bridgeport, grown like your 
mother tt) be the honored mother of many churches, the 
mother church in Fairfield extends her hands above 3'ou 
in loving benediction. That same uplift and outlook which 
she craves for herself she craves for her eldest child. 
The two hundred and fitty-six years of the one church- 
life are almost equaled by the two hundred years ol the 
other. It has been an eventful and sublime epoch. Dur- 
ing these two centuries, which have changed the face of 
the world and wrought for the triumphs of liberty, intel- 
ligence, righteousness, as have no other centuries, mother 



—117— 

and daughter have stood side by side in all honorable 
purpose, theological expression, sincere consecration, free- 
hearted gift of men, devout co-operation for the good of 
humanity and the exaltation of Christ. Into these supreme 
tasks have been compacted infinite love, zeal, faith, joy, 
hope. And the fruition has appeared in Christian man- 
hood and womanhood, rich and enduring contributions to 
the worth of the world. 

Daughter Church, the Fairfield mother greets you 
with affection. She counts your achievements as wit- 
nesses to the fidelity and sacrifice vital to the triumphs of 
our common Christianity. Eminent and consecrated min- 
isters have served 3'our parish with notable success. The 
people have responded to wise and loving leadership with 
significant unanimity. The church has entered into the 
development and prosperity of city and state with an 
energy, hopefulness, inspiration, enthusiasm known alone 
to the Great Head of the Church. 

May coming days bring you larger opportunities and 
richer powers. May the precious old-time associations 
serve to broaden and deepen new-time currents of spirit- 
ual activity. May the works of generations gone be like 
seed falling upon good ground, bringing forth some six- 
fold and some an hundred-fold. May this venerated Zion 
continue to shine with multiplied splendor and glory 
amid the galaxy of churches which begem this busy, fruit- 
ful city by the sea ! 

Dr. Palmer : It is not ever3ybody that has two moth- 
ers. We, as a church, rejoice in the fact that we have 
two, and having heard from one, we now propose to hear 
from the other, the First Church of Stratford, represented 
by its pastor, the Rev. Joel S. Ives. 

(2) First Church in Stratford. 

Rev. Jobl, S. Ives. 
Rev. Mr. Ives : Venerable Daughter, Christian friends 
of this North Church and the other churches ot this 
vicinity : 



— ii8— 

It was said last night that a child can have but one 
mother. To-day, we make real the anomaly of a daugh- 
ter with two mothers, unless it be said that Fairfield, in 
this case, inasmuch as she permitted those thirty-three 
families to pay taxes for the support of the churches both 
in Fairfield and in the new enterprise, may be called a 
mother-in-law. 

The date from which we, as Congregationalists, date 
our American history, is 1620, when our Pilgrim Fathers 
landed on the shores of Plymouth bay. It was a little 
company, which the first winter decimated b\" privations 
and disease. It would seem that their first effort would 
be to strengthen their stakes and deepen their foundations, 
through the consolidation of all their interests. But 
instead, they followed the example of the first Congrega- 
tionalists on the western coasts of the Great Sea. They 
went everywhere from Plymouth bay, carrying their Pur- 
itan conscience and their Congregational liberty of wor- 
ship and their Pilgrim love of learning. It was sturdy 
stuff that pushed out into the wilderness, making settle- 
ments through Massachusetts, even to the banks of the 
Connecticut river and the shores of Long Island Sound, 
until there was formed this 

" Pure republic, wild, yet strong. 
A 'fierce democracie ' where all are true 
To what themselves have voted." 

The first Englishman who came to the charming haven 
formed by the incurving lines of Milford Beach and Strat- 
ford Point, found here an Indian clan called Cupheags, 
which seems to mean " a place shut in." But for untold 
years it was the favorite camping-place of Indian tribes. 
The Mohicans appear to have come from the Hudson to 
the Housatonic, camping first near the falls at Kent and 
thus naming the river Pootatuck. What attracted the 
Indians attracted the white man also, as he looked upon 
the beauty of the situation, as the broad Housatonic 
swept out into the Sound. 

And there are records that, in 1637, the Connecticut 
colony conquered the Pequot and Pequannock tribes. 



— iig— 

Thomas Stanton, for many j^ears the Indian interpreter 
at Hartford, writes, that in March of 1637 there was 
found in Milford "only one house or the karkise of one." 
John Winthrop came with his company to Saybrook in 
163s ; John Davenport to New Haven in 1638, and the fol- 
lowing year a church was organized in Milford, with Mr. 
Prudden as the first pastor, while during the same year 
Rev. Adam Blakeman had come down the river from 
Wethersfield, and, together with those already on the 
ground, formed the first church in Stratford, two hun- 
dred and fifty -six years ago. 

This date cannot be assigned from documentar}- evi- 
dence, as the records of the church previous to the 3'ear 
1675 have been lost. But upon the records of the General 
Court is this: "Sergeant Nichols" is assigned "to train 
men and exercise them in military discipline," in this 
plantation ; and they were also given power " to choose 
seven men from among themselves," who should decide 
"differences and controversies under 40s." There was, 
therefore, town government at the mouth of the Housa- 
tonic in 1639, and as the late Professor Johnson says, "it 
would hardly be too strong to say that the establishment 
of the town and of the church was coincident." 

Except for the company who came with the Rev. Adam 
Blakeman from Massachusetts after a brief stay near 
Wethersfield, 3-our mother church seems to have been 
organized from individuals who had gathered here and 
not by an organized compan}', as was usual. Mr. Blake- 
man's pastorate continued till his death, September 7, 
1665, at the age of 6"] years. Thomas Hooker saj^s of 
him: " For the sake of the sacred and solemn simplicity 
of the discourse of this worthy man, if I might have my 
choice I would choose to live and die under Mr. Blakeman's 
ministry." His will makes plain that he was a member of 
the Cambridge Synod. His home was at the corner of 
Stratford avenue and Elm street, west of the site of the 
first meeting-house. In 165 1 it was voted, "by the town 
in public meetings," that " Mr. Blakeman shall have sixty 
pounds and pay part of his own rate." 



120 — 

Five months before the death of Mr. Blakeman the 
town voted to call Mr. Israel Chauncey " to help Mr. Blake- 
man in the ministry for a year," and in June, 1666, there 
was a " mutual agreement " for his settlement. He was 
the son of the Rev. Charles Chauncey, president of Har- 
vard College, and father of the Rev. Charles Chaunce}-, 
the first pastor of this church. He was born in 1644, and 
was actively engaged in the founding of Yale College, 
being chosen, November 11, 1701, as the rector of the col- 
lege, but declined the honor, probably because of failing 
health, as he died March 4, 1703. Nathaniel Chauncey, 
his nephew, and the first graduate of Yale College, in 
1702, was called to the vacant pastorate, but he declined 
the call. 

Israel Chauncey was an honored name in the colon}'. 
His ministry of thirty-eight years in Stratford, marked by 
great wisdom in affairs and dignity of character, means 
much, both to the mother church and to this daughter 
church as well. His studies included medicine in addi- 
tion to theology, and during the troublous times of the 
Narragansett war he was appointed one of the council of 
the army, and by this council ordered to " go forth with 
the army as their chirurgeon." 

During Mr. Chauncey 's pastorate the differences of opin- 
ion resulting from the half- way covenant, together with 
other causes, brought ab(jut the formation of the Second 
Church in Stratford, almost thirt}' 3'ears before the date 
which we celebrate to-day. This movement resulted in 
the migration to the " wilderness of Pomeraug," and the 
formation of the First Church of Woodbur}'. 

The first house of worship in Stratford was probably 
like the picture yonder, except that there must have been 
a place for a bell, probably in the lookout on its top, as a 
means of safety from the skulking Indians. This bell was 
the first of which there is any record in the colonies. 

In 1661 " it was agreed that there shall be a gallery 
builded in the meeting-house in the convenient place." 
This building was torn down in 1681, and some of the 
materials of its construction are in existence. 



— 121 

The second meeting-house was built in 1681, near the 
present soldiers' monument, on what was then called 
" Watch Hill," its dimensions being "48 feet in length, 42 
feet in breadth and 16 feet between joints." By vote of 
the town this building was seated in accordance with the 
amount paid toward its construction, the amount voted 
being one hundred pounds. In 1689, it was voted to for- 
tify the house, so that it could be used " as a place of secu- 
rity for women and children." 

Dating thus from the beginning of Stratford and Fair- 
field, we are contemplating the history of two hundred 
and fifty-six years. It was one hundred and thirty-seven 
years from the founding of the mother churches to the 
Declaration of Independence, and only one hundred and 
nineteen years since that date. 

Who can measure the meaning of these figures ? 

But there is a wider sweep of historic forces — it is the 
universal Church of God. Our Congregational church 
has a larger place in the kingdom of God on earth. Our 
freedom of worship, our liberty of thought, our protest 
against hierarchy, "the common priesthood of believers," 
our zeal for the kingdom of righteousness and truth, these 
are our heritage and these are the things we would bear 
onward to the church universal. 

The mother church of Stratford gives to-day to her 
second daughter her warmest congratulations upon this 
two-hundreth birthday and her assurances of co-operation, 
both with pastor and people, in the work which God gives 
us to do. 

" Hail ancient church ! Lift high thy voice. 
Through centuries yet to come rejoice. 
The church triumphant waits, and we 
Shall join the immortal company." 

Dr. Palmer: Let us unite in singing to one of the old 
tunes, in which we can all unite, the 329th hymn. 
Hymn 329. " Ye tribes of Adam join." 

Dr. Palmer (after singing the first verse): Let us do 
better than that on the next verse, all sing ; (after singing 
the second verse) that is better, now better still. 



— 122 

Dr. Palmer: Sixty-five j'ears ago, friends, to-da}', 
strange it may seem to you, there was not a store or a 
shop upon Main street ; it was full of residences, and so 
were the cross streets; State street, Wall street, Bank 
street and John street, all this part of the town was a res- 
idential section. The stores were all together in Water 
street. There was a house and garden where the Atlantic 
Hotel stands, there were houses and gardens extending to 
the water on the shore where now the Consolidated 
Road's freight houses are. It is difficult for us to con- 
ceive how different a locality this was then, from what it 
is now. This church was in the center of the population. 
Now, I suppose, there came to be so many people in need 
of church privileges that there was a reason for a division. 
At any rate a division came about, a division which at 
that time was regretted here, but doubtless proved to be 
for the good of the communit}'. 

When that division originated the Second Church, 1 
believe that the people who stood by the old church were 
sorry to see them go ; but they are exceedingly happy 
that in the preparations for this occasion and in carrying 
on the arrangements of this occasion the)' came back here 
and are here with us on the same footing with ourselves. 

Now we are going to hear from the pastor of the 
Second Church, the Rev. Dr. Russell. 

WORDS FROM THE DAUGHTER CHURCHES. 

(i) The South Church. 

Rev. Frank Russell, D.D. 

Dr. Russell: Christian Friends of the North Church, 
and of the other Associated Chuixhes and of all the 
Churches : 

I feel very happy indeed to be able to stand iiere and 
give my testimony to the greatness of this occasion. 
When I first contemplated coming to Bridgeport I knew 
nothing about Bridgeport. I knew something about two 



-12" 



men in Bridg-eport; they were very attractive. One of 
them had had quite a career and has gone. His name 
was P. T. Barniim. The other was having his career, and 
that was Dr. Palmer ; and those two names were very sig- 
nificant in m}- first acquaintance with Bridgeport. 

I little thought that within a year and a half I should be 
ushered into such a celebration as this, the sacredness of 
which has not yet been half told. It is more significant 
than we think. Our fathers, whose careers have been 
enumerated here, builded, as we see now, wiser than they 
knew ; and I feel like sa3nng that the projectors of this 
commemorative occasion were building a great deal wiser 
and greater than they knew. There were giants in those 
older da3fs ; we have had them named, we have had the 
roll call. We have found their descendants still here. 
We have gathered in these great congregations — this is 
the fourth and the last, and some of us begin to feel this 
ought not to be the last. We would stay in such a frame as 
this, and we would keep this decorated tabernacle awhile. 
It has been my thought to-day that it is most too bad to 
go down from this mountain top without the Sunday 
school children of Bridgeport coming in here and into the 
adjoining building, and have the significance of these 
things explained to them ; yea, ever}^ school child in 
Bridgeport, boy or girl, should be permitted, as we have 
been permitted, to have realized before them the com- 
memoration of this great scene. I know some of them 
have been taken out of the public schools to-day for 
that special purpose, that the}^ may have a sight at the 
relics, the decorations, in-order that they may be in- 
structed more appropriately as to what this gathering 
means. Emphasis has been given to the leadership and 
the great instructors which this church has had from 
its beginning. But I think it is worth while to mention 
the 3^ears of humble common ministry of a church, not 
of a pulpit merely, but of the membership of the church, 
the ten thousand instances of kindly sympathetic attention 
to the sick and the poor, the greetings of new comers, the 
cordial affiliations and sympathy with those who were in 



— 124— 

trouble, the unnumbered instances of counsel given and 
received ; all of tiiis permeating tiic life of the communit}-, 
strengthening and blessing it, till after the two hundred 
years of the outpouring of such streams we are enabled 
to sit here and say to each other — what a congregation of 
faces, mature, strong, showing great character ! 

Then we remember how it is in the Western churches, 
that ministers are told of all new comers — "family moved 
in over on such a street. Where did they come from ? 
Well, they came from Illinois, Indiana, came from Ohio, 
came from Pennsylvania — well, I will get around in a few 
days and try and make their acquaintance." 

But told that a family has moved in at such another 
number. "Where did they come from?" " They came 
from Connecticut." "Where is my hat?" They only 
lose ten minutes before they see that famil}'. (Laughter.) 
And they will testify to you personally the reason for 
these different acts. When we find a New England Con- 
gi-egational familv we know generally they have their let- 
ters with them or the}' will come very soon, and go right 
into the church with the family, ready at once for services. 
He will not board around for two or three years before he 
finds a boarding-place, but will attend to his church duties 
as he attends to his ordinary' duties, in a clear, good, 
prompt manner. And he will be in his place in the 
church at work right off; because he is accustomed to it. 
He has borne burdens and he expects to enter into that 
church-life in his new place. 

Now that will hardly be matched by families commonly, 
on an average, moving from other states. It is that train- 
ing in this land of steady, strong habits. I confess person- 
ally that I was proud to have m}^ own lineage familiarh' 
mapped out so that some of these scenes seemed ver}- 
familiar. Well, I came from England in 1638 and landed 
with John Davenport's congregation in the first ship that 
touched at New Haven or Ouinnipiack harbor, and under 
the Center Church was buried both the father and the son 
who came over. The first one born in this country grad- 
uated from Harvard, a tutor there for a time, one of the 



— 125 — 

founders of Yale, pastor of Middletown for twenty-six 
years, and his son in Rocky Hill, then VVethersfield thirty- 
four years, each of them buried at the close of their pas- 
torate, and so on till they come down to me^ the eighth. 
I was very glad also to hear about the Saybrook platform 
and the scenes of the settlement of the territory and the 
establishment of the churches about here. It was expected, 
I suppose, that I should speak something about the South 
Church. It is only for the purpose of representing it that 
I am here at this time with these remarks. I thought, 
when it was suggested to me that the children of this dear 
old mother church should have something 'to say respect- 
ing each family, that it would be rather a difficult matter 
for me to say anything on that point ; but the more I 
looked into it the more I found it a very pleasant message 
that I should bring. When I first began to inquire about 
it in the South Church, I said, " You say we separated 
from the North Church?" "Yes — but it was over sixty 
years ago." Well, that sounded better. " Then there 
was some unpleasantness between the North and the 
South ? we hear it spoken of sometimes." O yes, but 
there is an abundance of peace now. Well, I think there 
ought to be, there are strong members in the South 
Church that united with it before I was born. Then 1 
said to one and another, " What was the cause of the divi- 
sion between the North Church and the South Church ? " 
The first one said, " Well, it was something about theol- 
ogy." Then I asked the next one, " What was the cause 
of the separation of the South Church Irom the North 
Church?" "Something about theology." I asked the 
next one, and he said something about theolog}', and I 
never got further than that, excepting in one case. One 
of them said, " It was something about theology, I believe, 
New Haven theology ; " and that is as far as 1 have ever 
had any explanation given to me. 

I was reminded of the man who bestowed a great deal 
of his attention upon his the(jlogical convictions, so that 
he might stand up to them. " Now, I believe," he says, 
" that God foreordained, or else that he had foreknown 



126 

— well, whichever way it is I don't know, but I believe in 
it." (Laughter.) 

As to any modern difficulty or difference between the 
North Church and South Church, I never found a single 
glimmer, or look, or tone that had in it any lack of per- 
fect harmon}' between the two bodies. Indeed, the}^ are 
not ver^' far apart, five hundred feet; they didn't go very 
far South to get the name of the South Church. I have 
tried to read up the history about the circumstances when 
they did go. And I found that when the separation com- 
menced and one hundred and seventeen wanted to go and 
form a new church, here was the mother that followed 
them with love and with gifts, and when they talked 
about building a building, handed over $2,000 to help 
them. That don't look like any great degree of unpleas- 
antness between the North Church and the South Church. 
And then right away, before they had their wooden build- 
ing built that cost $5,000, they had a revival of religion in 
which it is on record that both churches heartily joined 
and reaped great fruits. Well, that first year of division 
seems to have been a glorious year; and then Dr. Hewitt 
was called ; he stayed just as long as dear Dr. Palmer has 
been in this church; and I cannot find a single glimmer 
of any difference between the two churches. 

I find traces of a great deal of heroism that belonged 
to the South Church. I read in their records with abso- 
lute amazement that they commenced the burden of 
building the present edifice just at the beginning of the 
war, and that in 1862, right in the midst of the conflict 
that was draining the ver}' life out of communities, the)' 
completed it for liberty and the Gospel. (Applause.) I 
say that was grand and it was wonderful ; and I rather 
fancy there must have been a good deal of sympath}', 
active and valuable sympathy, from the brethren of the 
North Church when that was done. 

I have no particular occasion to pursue the details of 
the histor)-. That has a more substantial record, for 
there stands the building which represents the South 
Church. I have one more thought that has been upper- 



12/ — 

most in my heart in all the sessions of this gathering ; and 
that is the purpose, the common purpose which is before 
us and before ail of the churches of this cluster of churches 
in this city — the promotion of the same Gospel ; there is 
no new Gospel. If sixty-five years ago there was any 
exploited in the minds of any at the time of the division 
it certainly must have been given up, because it has been 
the same Gospel ever since which the two churches have 
proclaimed, the everlasting Gospel of the forgiveness of 
sins through our Lord Jesus Christ; and the churches 
are sent to push that Gospel into the homes and into the 
hearts of all who dwell around about them, and into the 
regions beyond to the remotest parts of the earth. 

The churches that have been formed in Bridgeport 
have been missionary churches. They have been mis- 
sionary churches at home, as well as abroad ; they would 
not be missionary churches abroad had they not been 
missionary churches at home. So my thought to-day is 
that we are here in a common warfare ; our methods 
almost exactly the same, yes, exactly the same ; our pur- 
poses the same, our gospel ths same, our songs the same, 
our prayers the same, our prayers in behalf of each other 
the same and constant ; and the work that comes before 
us to do is to minister with all the churches upon every 
street, and in every home in this community, that people 
may be brought into some of the churches in proportion- 
ate numbers to recognize the kingship of our risen Christ, 
and to follow Him in activity of purpose, in humility of 
life ; recognizing Him and walking to the same church 
with His people, alike in their activity to spread the 
Gospel in this region, and extend it to many others. 
May this be our prayer, may this be our purpose, may 
this be our hope, that the generations of children yet to 
come may at the end of another century have to enumer- 
ate that on the latest of the then three centuries there 
has been great activity and great presence and power of 
the Holy Spirit in the hearts of the people, in the enlarge- 
ment and furtherance of our common Gospel. God bless 
the churches of this city, God bless this North Church, 
the original church of this city. (Loud applause.) 



— 128— 

Dr. Palmer: The next movement growing out of the 
abundance of life in the First Church was a mission 
school. There was a new communit}' be3'ond the river. 
When I came to this cit}', Park St. Church had grown 
out of that mission school and was, for the first time, tr}^- 
ing to get on without missionary help. It was feeling its 
feet beneath it, it was beginning to walk, it was gathering 
strength. I have watched its growth from that time on. 
1 have been extremely interested in seeing its progress; 
some of its pastors have been very dear to me. It has 
grown to be one of the largest and strongest churches in 
the city and we have rejoiced in its growth. It has 
shown a commendable spirit, not only in bearing its own 
burdens, but in taking the lead to further church exten- 
sion. We rejoice to see that ; we rejoice in its present 
prosperity, and are extremely glad to welcome here 
to-day its gifted pastor, from whom we hope to hear at 
this time. 



(2) The Park St. Church. 

Rev. Edward Grier Fullerton, Ph.D. 

Rev. Mr. FuLLERTON: Dr. Palmer, ladies and gentle- 
men — I am sure that we all feel like extending our sym- 
pathies to Dr. Russell for having had a relative in 
Wethersfield for thirtv-four years. He was certainly 
very honest to tell us about it, and I know we would all 
be glad to sign an application for the estimable gentle- 
man's pardon if he were still alive. (Laughter.) 

A story has gone the rounds of late which tells of a 
little girl who was very proud of her family ties. She 
was once watching her mother, who was more than 
usually well dressed at the time, and, after a few moments 
of silent inspection, said, with a satisfied sigh : " Oh, 
mother, how sweet you do look ! I'm so glad you married 
into our family!" I know that to-day these assembled 
churches are saying the same thing, from the bottom of 
their hearts, about their mother. 



129 — 

A clerical friend in an adjoining parish told me of the 
shrewd saying of a child that he and his wife had adopted. 
The little one did not understand, of course, the legal 
measures it was necessar}' to go through before she 
became really theirs, but she knew something was going 
to happen, and looked with great eagerness for the papers 
to come. When at last they arrived, her new mother 
threw them down before her and said : " Now you are as 
much my little girl as though you were born in this 
house." To this the child responded pleasantly: "Yes, 
and you are just as much my mother as though j)/£iz< were 
born in the house, — aren't you?" There is an excellent 
application to that story, but it has slipped my mind just 
now. Never mind. Let it pass. (Laughter.) 

There is no need of extended remark from me at this 
time. You naturally expected lengthy speeches from the 
old mother churches of us all,— Fairfield and Stratford, 
for when mothers get to talking of their children, they 
never do know when to stop. You naturally expected, 
too, to hear something good from the big sister, the 
South Church, and you were not disappointed. By the 
way, I have never been quite able to make out the rela- 
tionship of my church and the South. Is she partly a 
progenitor and partly a contemporary ? I usually have 
to satisfy myself by saying: " Well, as she is a block or 
two more distant from us than the First Church is, we 
can just call her a step-father." (Laughter.) 

You also look for a good deal from the younger chil- 
dren — Olivet, West End, and the baby, the King's High- 
way Chapel. You are waiting now, I know, to hear 
their innocent and merry prattle, and I shall not detain 
you long. 

The gathering of this afternoon is in some respects the 
feature of the whole celebration. This is true, not 
because we have superior talent to display, for the meet- 
ing yesterday afternoon, with your pastor's scholarly and 
accurate historic address ; of last night, with the greet- 
ings from brethren of other denominations; of this morn- 
ing, with its array of distinguished speakers, it would be 
9 



— ISO- 
hard for us to compete with. But you must remember 
that this is distinctly a famil}' gathering, in which the 
mother, the grandparents, and the children, have come 
together to felicitate each other on this interesting period 
in the career of one of our number. As such, an interest 
attaches to this meeting that is peculiar, and all its own. 

Well, we are very proud, I can assure you, of our her- 
itage. I speak, I know, not only for my church, but for 
all the rest as well. We were glad to learn, yesterday 
afternoon, of the close relationship there was between us 
and old Stratford and Fairfield, — glad to know that the 
ties that bind us are stronger and closer than railroad 
ties. It is comforting to be assured of the exact statistics 
of our heritage — thirteen of our forefathers coming from 
Stratford, and thirty-three from Fairfield. Inherited 
tendencies are hard to trace with an)' degree of exactness, 
but from the mystic thirteen of Stratford we have all 
perhaps inherited the go-ahead spirit, the tendency to 
"make things hum " that is such a feature of the insect 
life at least of that pleasant suburb of ours. Possibly, 
also, — for there is nothing more contradictory than differ- 
ent traits in the same character, we also have from her 
that sleepiness, that unwillingness to do church work 
that a scattered few of our number show. For Stratford 
is an intensely soporific spot, you know. Brother Wood- 
ruff, of Black Rock, has in fact evolved from his witty 
consciousness a conundrum regarding the beloved pastor 
of Stratford Church. " Why is Brother Ives like Shakes- 
peare?" "Because he is buried in Stratford." From 
Fairfield we probably inherit our pride, our satisfaction 
with ourselves, our firm belief that " we are the people," 
or at least a very important part of them. Why, Fair- 
field is so content with herself that she didn't even want 
the trolley, and the trolley retaliates b}' shaking off the 
dust from her wheels upon poor Fairfield every time she 
goes through the town. 

I think especially at this time, however, of what my 
own church, in particular, owes to her mother, the Old 
First. It is familiarly said, you remember, that the train- 



—131— 

ing of a child should begin two hundred years before it is 
born, and ours has begun two hundred, or nearly, before 
that — to us — interesting event. One of the marked fea- 
tures in the life of this church, as 3'ou noticed all through 
the history of yesterday afternoon, has been her courage, 
her steadfastness, her indomitable spirit in the face of 
obstacles. I look back at the first beginnings of Park 
Street, a quarter of a century ago, and, seeing the same 
traits strongly marked there, realize that she came hon- 
estly by these first requisites of success. 

Then, too, our Mother Church has been very fond of 
children. Her bump of philoprogenitiveness has been 
strongl}' marked. She has constantly been sending out 
infant churches, until quite a "quiver full of them " have 
sprung up around her. We have tried to be true to our 
heritage in this respect, also, and, though little past our 
majority, have a flourishing child in the King's Highway 
Chapel, that has recently begun life of its own account. 
It seems a little dreadful that thirty or forty of the mem- 
bers should suddenly become "highwaymen," but those 
things will happen sometimes. (Laughter.) 

And now I trust that we may be true to our mother in 
other respects, and as we inevitably must grow old, do so 
as gracefully as she has done. It is our hope and prayer 
that our children may rise up and call us blessed, as hers 
have done for her to-day : that our history may be as 
brave and noble a history as that which she looks back 
upon : and that when we leave the church militant on 
earth to join the shining ranks of the Church Triumphant 
in heaven, we ma}' have as many stars of rejoicing as we 
know will glitter in her crown. (Applause.) 

Dr. Palmer: This morning, owing to the fact that 
President Dwight was anxious to take a train, and his 
time was efetting: a little short, an interlude was left out of 
the programme, which I want to have introduced at this 
time, the choir leading. Perhaps you will be refreshed if 
3'ou rise while singing. 

Interlude, "The breaking waves dashed high." 



— 132— 

Dr. Palmer: It is in the neighborhood of twenty-five 
)-ears ago that certain members of this church lelt that 
something must be done with the northern part of the 
city. And one member of this congregation became 
responsible for the renting of a hall, for the furtherance 
of church work in that section. The memory of one of 
those who survives testifies that at the first service there 
were five persons. There were three teachers and two 
pupils. That was the beginning of the Olivet Church, a 
church which has now become one of the strong and hope- 
ful churches in the city, but which, for a great while, had 
a painful struggle to make good its right to be. We are 
proud of the eminence which it has reached, and its 
promise for the futtire, and we greatly love the man who 
ministers to it and who has done so much to make it the 
exceedingly alive and prosperous church it has become. 
I am glad to introduce the Rev. Edwin K. Holden. 

(3) Olivet Church. 

Rev. Edwin K. Holden. 

Rev. Mr. Holden: We are glad to recognize to-day 
the truth of the Proverb (17:6), that "The glory of chil- 
dren are their fathers." The daughter for whom I speak 
is most happy in this anniversary of her mother. She 
bears to you congratulations, gratitude and affection. 
She congratulates you on your venerable years, on the 
magnificent service which you have rendered the com- 
munity in particular, and humanity in general, through 
the long period of 3'our ministration. 

As I listened to that splendid discourse by Dr. Palmer, 
yesterday afternoon, and saw this panorama on the wall 
marking so suggestively the advance of our civilization, 
and heard the names of those eminent men, some of whom 
we have listened to to-day, whose roots run back to this 
church, I venture the statement that among all the forces 
that have combined in the last two hundred years in shap- 
ing and realizing the best institutions and life of this 
entire community, not one has been more potent than this 
First Church of Christ. 



—133— 

But this fact is so prominent that it has been emphasized 
in the thought of all who have spoken upon this occasion. 

I would have been glad to hear some one speak upon 
the relation of this church to the great missionary work 
of our societies. It gives a fine opportunity to discover 
the spirit of the church. Its zeal in this direction has 
been most marked. I took occasion to look back over her 
records and I found, as I expected to find, that she has 
been among the foremost in missionary enterprise. 

It was natural, therefore, that this missionary zeal 
should show itself in its own city. In church extension 
in this city, this church has taken the lead. It is for me 
to speak only for one child of her love and fostering care. 

The records of the Olivet Congregational Church begin 
as follows: "About the year 1868, a mission Sabbath 
school was established in the northern part of Bridgeport, 
under the auspices of the North Congregational Church." 
November 16, 1870, a church was organized. You will ob- 
serve, therefore, that on the i6th of next November, this 
daughter will celebrate her twenty-fifth anniversary, to 
which the mother church will have a most cordial welcome. 
I have felt that this church must have a great deal of affec- 
ticn for Olivet Church, if for no other reason than on the 
principle that parents alwaj-s feel a little more tender 
towards a child that has been a great deal of care to them 
and has caused them much anxiety and solicitude. Oli- 
vet Church certainl}' had a struggle for existence. But 
this church never forsook her. It was 3'our money that 
kept her doors open, when other resources failed. I have 
heard the story of how the pastor of this church, with one 
of his saintly members, who is still spared among us a 
benediction to all who know her, met together to see 
what could be done to keep the doors open for another 
year, and solved the question by each pledging $500. 
From this time her steps began to be more firm ; slowly 
but surelv she has been making her way. Her history 
for the last three or four years is well known to you, for 
you have been in it, you have largely made it. Your 
money has been largely instrumental in giving us a habi- 



—134— 

tation in which we ail talce delight. So we come to 3'ou 
to-day from a good, beautiful and commodious home, 
happy in our work, not only to congratulate you, but 
also to express to you our gratitude and our affection. 

I should not be true to myself to-day, if I did not 
express my high regard for, and my personal indebted- 
ness to Dr. Palmer. If it is not in good taste to speak in 
this personal way in Dr. Palmer's presence, then I know 
of no other way but to consider him for a few moments 
as absent. 

Perhaps you are familiar with the story told of the Rev. 
Thomas Williams and Dr. Emmons. Each wrote the 
funeral sermon of the other with the mutual understand- 
ing that the one who should survive the other should 
read at the funeral of the deceased the discourse as pre- 
viously prepared. They lived on to advanced years, when 
Dr. Emmons, being the older, and thinking he might die 
first, wished to know what his friend would say about 
him, so he asked him to read to him his discourse. Mr. 
Williams consented, and during the reading Dr. Emmons 
interrupted him with some remarks or criticism, when 
Mr. Williams said, " Be quiet, sir, remember that for all 
the purposes of this discourse you are a dead man." So 
"for all the purposes of my words," Dr. Palmer is not 
present. 

1 want to say frankly, that 1 have counted the friend- 
ship of Dr. Palmer as one of my best blessings, since I 
have been in Bridgeport. I will tell you what has made 
me esteem and honor Dr. Palmer. I came here ten years 
ago last spring from the Seminary to engage in Christian 
work in the Olivet Mission. Ten years ago last Sunday 
I was ordained to the Christian ministry. The ordaining 
prayer was made by Dr. Palmer. By him 1 was formally 
set apart to the Christian ministry. I was without exper- 
ience, and in a strange land, and from that day to this he 
has been to me counsellor and friend. His home, in 
which at that time was that noble woman, whose name 
and great kindness will never be forgotten by those of 
you who knew her, has been so cordially open to me and 



—135— 

mine, that I regret that there should be even a rumor that 
his residence will soon be transferred to another city. 
Hence my esteem and affection. 

Again we all know that this community is more 
indebted to the twenty-three years of service of Dr. Pal- 
mer than any of us can realize. The ministry is indebted 
to him. He has done much to divest our sacred callina: 
of everything that is patronizing and unmanly and 
imparted to it the wholesome flavor of Christian manli- 
ness. 

Fred Douglass, commenting on the parable of the Good 
Samaritan, said of the priest who passed by on the other 
side, " He was all priest and no man." 

Dr. Palmer, without ever sacrificing anything of the 
dignit}' of his calling, has shown himself at all times a man. 

This city is indebted to him. It is worthy of recogni- 
tion and of profound gratitude that such a man with high 
attainments, with the most wholesome ideas of humanity, 
and religion, whose zeal has been marked with sobriety 
and sound judgment, has stood in your midst for twenty- 
three 3'ears. 

God be praised for his work here! For the generous 
gift of himself and his means to this community. For the 
saintly memory of her whose influence lingers with us 
and will to the end of time. I bring the hearty congratu- 
lations of Oliver Church, 1 bring her gratitude, I bring 
our tribute of honor and love. (Loud applause.) 

Dr. Palmer: One bright, sunny morning, about ten 
years ago, — a little more, I went with the superintendent 
of our Sunday School to the West End. We learned that 
the city had pre-empted a certain piece of land for the 
school. We remembered that in New England school 
and church were apt to go together. We decided that 
the City Fathers had thus indicated where they thought 
the center of population was to be in that rapidly grow- 
ing suburb. We had the pleasure that day of deciding 
the question of location for a future church. Knowing 
that the standing committee of my church was behind 



—I se- 
me, with their cordial approbation and consent, I bought 
the land, and from that beginning there has grown up a 
very vigorous and interesting 3'oung church, with a fruit- 
ful present and an exceedingly promising future. We 
look upon that church with a great deal of affection. We 
welcome its new pastor, who will speak a few words to us 
at this time. As he is little known to you all, personally, 
I am all the more happy to present to you Rev. Cyrus F. 
Stimson. 

(4) The West End Church. 

Rev. Cyrus F. Stimson. 

Rev. Mr. Stimson: Rev. Doctor and Christian sisters 
and brethren of all denominations: — I am in the peculiar 
position at this moment of the proverbial gosling. The 
First Church we acknowledge as our common mother, 
and so I recognize m you all sister churches, but since I 
have not yet been ordained and installed I am not yet a 
bird of like feather. But, nevertheless, I have been long 
enough connected with the West End Church to have 
caught its spirit of devotion and loyalty to its mother, and 
of affection and reverence for that mother's able servant, 
£'?<r dear Dr. Palmer; and I therefore can speak for the 
West End Church, and, I believe, can give true though 
inadequate expression to its feeling. I could not write 
what 1 would speak in the name of our church, for I 
needed the ffavor of the occasion to fill me; and as we 
have listened to one after another of the great men who 
have graced these days of celebration as they have made 
the past live again — I have been tilled again and again 
with the martial spirit which has made kingly and loyal 
servants in all times for the service and advancement of 
the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps, there- 
fore, the best thing I can do will not be to give the history 
of the little nursling which has developed so precociously 
into an awkward maid of somewhat uncertain promise, but 
who is now showing form and comeliness which warrants 
your support — the best thing from the West End church 



—137— 

will not be the rehearsal of familiar history, but a pledge 
of our church's purpose and spirit for the future. She 
gives her warmest greetings to the First Church, to the 
Rev. Dr. Palmer and to all who are assembled here, 
as she unites to the fullest in their congratulation to our 
goodly mother church. For the future our West End 
Church desires to attest and illustrate its heroic blood. 
We tremble, as the Roman youths and maidens did of 
old, as we feel our ancestral dignit3^ We come from 
that Romulus and Remus seed of immortals, suckled by a 
wolf and cradled by hardship into heroic manhood. 

Our mother is of divine lineage; her ancestral tree 
reaches Christ as its root. Hence we give you, Rev. Dr. 
Palmer, and all our friends, the pledge that we will give 
proof of the great blood that lives in us. We will not 
forget that our church rests where Indian corn fields 
were but a little time ago. We will emulate the noble 
Blatchford, whose aspirations and achievements have 
inspired us all. You remember the account of his toils 
bv night to help the American prisoners, and how by 
perils and self-sacrifices he was filled with the zeal of a 
hero and came to the new world to sow that we might 
reap. Our ancestors, whether Englishmen, Scotchmen, 
Germans or Irishmen, were educated not in our public 
schools, but in the clan and tribal-meet, where ancestral 
songs were sung, where bard and minstrel heralded the 
deeds of the unforgotten dead. Thus the glowing memo- 
ries of past greatness inflamed the zeal of our fathers to 
new works of heroism. So it has seemed to me that 
Dr. Palmer and the First Church and its friends have 
prepared a great folk-meet of the churches, that here we 
children might all be inspired by the celebration of the 
ancient works of our fathers, and add new lustre to their 
fame by our recognition of their worth. We gladly join 
in the songs of celebration, in the words of encomium, 
and wish our mother many days of jubilee to come. 

Let us close with the promise that we of the West End 
Church will fight and work, toil and sacrifice, laying 
yonder the foundations of a church, asking for no nobler 



-138- 

hope than that our church may prove a true daughter of 
its most noble mother. (Applause.) 

Dr. Palmer. I am not going to try to define exactl}- 
our relations to the King's Highway Church. It is not 
necessary. The actual beginning of it was a movement 
by one member of this church to establish a mission 
school in the locality, but with our cordial approbation it 
was taken under the fostering care of the Park St. 
Church but the Park St. Church asked our help and we 
cheerfully gave it ; and so it is a sort of joint child of the 
First Church, and its daughter, the Park St. Church. 
But it is a very dear church. It is the baby. We think 
extremely well of it ; we had just got it started and built 
a house when some incendiary burned the iiouse down. 
We rebuilt it quicker than it had been built before and it 
has nearl}' doubled its membership since its organization 
a year ago. It has a very promising future before it, 
we hope. We thought we would like to have a message 
from it this afternoon. We should like to hear a few 
words from its pastor, the Rev. Wilson R. Stewart. 

(5) The King's Highway Church. 

Rev. Wilson R. Stewart. 

Rev. Mr. Stewart: Dr. Palmer, members of the 
Mother Churches and all the Sister Churches, and 
others — 

" The bab)', new to earth and sky, 

What times his tender palm is pressed ; 
Against the circle of the breast 
Has never thought that this is I." 

These words of the poet seem to me lo express the 
feeling of the baby church. While she was nurtured by 
her mother she did not realize the greatness of her 
ancestry, did not realize the purity of the blood which 
coursed through her 3'oung veins. The story is told of 
two children who were taking an outing in one of the 
city parks with their nurse. A very elegantlj'-dressed 



—139— 

woman passed them. The children turned around to the 
nurse and said, "Nurse, who is that lady ?" and the nurse 
replied, " That is your mother, children." 

Now this is not exactly our relation toward the mother 
church. We know our mother church, we realize all 
that she has done for us, but not until the last two days 
has the baby church realized her true position or fully 
realized the greatness of her mother, and the dignity that 
has surrounded this church from her earliest years. As 
Dr. Palmer has remarked, we can claim two mothers. 
The baby church is the oifspring of the Park St. Congre- 
gational Church and also of the First Church ; our terri- 
tory being on the East side, the work naturally started 
under the care of the Park St. Congregational Church. 
I hardly feel that it is necessary for me to describe the 
histor}' of our church, for in comparison with our mother 
we have no history worth mentioning. 

As I sat here this afternoon and listened to the remarks 
that were made by our grandmothers, by the parent 
church and by our big sisters, I began to think what is 
there left for the little baby to say. We cannot look 
back over into the past and tell you of grand achieve- 
ments. We cannot peer into the future, we know not 
what it will bring forth ; and it seemed to me that our 
voice this afternoon would be that of 

"An infant crying in the night, 
An infant crying for the light ; 
And with no language but a cry." 

And yet I would have you understand that we are a 
very healthy child, and the cry we shall give you this 
afternoon shall be a most lusty one ; there is nothing sick 
or puny in this baby. How could she be otherwise than 
a healthy baby with such royal, such blue blood coursing 
through her veins ! 

About five years ago a Sunday School was started on 
Old Mill Green. On the first Sunday there were present 
twenty children, gathered in the house of one of the 
members of this church. In five weeks from that first 



— 140 — 

Sunday the membership of that school numbered one 
hundred. In this wny did the King's Highway Church 
start from the Sunday School. There was no thought 
when that Sabbath School was organized that it would 
soon become a church. 

In 1893 through the help of the Park St. Church, and 
through the help of good Dr. Palmer of this church, a 
building was provided for that Sunda}' School ; but as 
the doctor has told you, that building was destined to be 
of short duration. In less than a year it was burned to 
the ground. 

I am reminded of a remark of the good doctor's, when 
the members of Old Mill Green assembled to see what 
could be done to furnish another building for this school. 
The doctor said, " Ashes make a good fertilizer," and they 
proved to be in this case. In three or four months from 
the time that building was burned to the ground there 
stood on the same spot another building, more complete 
than the first, furnished throughout. In one month from 
the dedication of this second building, which occurred on 
May 22, 1894, a church organization was completed. 
On June 28, 1894, fift}' members organized the church 
now known as the King's Highwa}- Church; thirty-four 
of those members, I believe, coming from the Park St. 
Congregational Ciuirch, and eight or ten of them coming 
from this church. While the number was not so large 
from this First Church, I assure you that the quality was 
most excellent. We have on our church roll the names 
of some of the descendants of the founders of this First 
Church, illustrious names in the early history of the city 
of Bridgeport. We are proud of them, we are proud of 
them because they are active, because their souls and 
their hearts are in the work on Old Mill Green. 

Good Brother Fullerton, a few moments ago, styled us 
highwaymen; we shall permit 3'ou to look upon us as 
highwaymen, if you consider the name in the right sense. 
You know highwaymen are tiiose who go out and get 
others sometimes to join their band. This is what the 
highwaymen of Old Mill Green are doing. They are 



— 141 — 

going out into the highways and hedges; they are 
beseeching others to come in and join their band, to 
become highwaymen in the sense that they are followers, 
soldiers of Jesus Christ, and are willing to do all in their 
power for the furtherance of His Kingdom. 

I bring you then this afternoon the congratulations of 
the baby church — the King's Highway Church. I, too, 
stand under the peculiar relation to our good Dr. Palmer. 
Only four months ago was I ordained to the Christian 
ministry. On that occasion, the most important in my 
life, it was the good Dr. Palmer who laid his hands upon 
my head and consecrated me to the Master's service. I 
shall never forget that'occasion. 1 shall never forget the 
prayer uttered by the good doctor on that occasion. 

I said a few moments ago we had no history to speak 
of; but when I sat here yesterda}- and to-da)' and listened 
to the grand histor}' of this old church, I thought, on the 
one hand, that there was very little for me to say for 
the infant church; and yet, on the other hand, I was 
impressed with the fact that with God there is no such 
thing as time, and all through the exercises of the last two 
days, in the history of the mother church and in the greet- 
ings of the grandmother churches, there seemed to be one 
glad refrain, one message of cheer and hope to the young 
churches. It was this : 

" Grow old along with me ! 
The best is yet to be 

The last of life for which the first was made : 
Our times are in His hands 
Who saith a whole I planned, 
Youth shows but half ; 

Trust God ; see all. nor be afraid." 

You know it is considered very often an honor to be 
considered the baby in the famil}', for the very reason the 
baby receives more caresses than any other member of 
the family. It is nurtured with the most tender care. 
We are proud this afternoon to be considered the baby 
church and yet we shall be willing to give up this coveted 
position as the baby church for the sake of the growth of 



— 142- 

the Kingdom of God. We doubt not but in a very short 
time there will spring forth anotlier new church which 
shall be known as the " bab}^" and we shall gladl}' make 
way for all the little strangers that shall come in time. 

Again T extend congratulations to our mother church 
on this joyous occasion. (Loud applause.) 

Dr. Palmer : It is proposed to close these services by 
singing the 854th hymn, " Happy the souls to Jesus 
joined." 

Before we sing I wish to sa}' that 1 am very thankful to 
all of these good brethren for what they have brought 
here, their loving words and best wishes. I am very 
thankful to all who have taken part in this joyous com- 
memoration, and when the commemoration is over new 
service is the next thing to think of. We will address 
ourselves to the work in the future of this good city of 
ours — hoping that when another century has passed away 
there may be fresh rejoicings over the progress of the 
kingdom ; and that those who have been here so deeply 
interested at this time may be succeeded by their chil- 
dren and their children's children in the rejoicing of that 
joyous occasion. (Long-continued applause.) 

Singing. 

" Happy the souls to Jesus joined." 

Benediction. 



SERVICES OF SUNDAY, THE i6th. 

On the Sunday following the anniversary, the i6th of 
June, the Bi-Centennial decorations still in place, and the 
spirit of the great occasion unabated, commemorative ser- 
vices were continued. In the forenoon Dr. Palmer took 
up the dropped thread of his historical discourse, and in 
the afternoon, following out the suggestion ot Dr. Rus- 
sell, there was a great gathering of Simday-school chil- 
dren, which filled the church. The latter occasion was 



— 143— 

very enjoyable, the children's singing and the ministers' 
familiar addresses filling an hour and a half very agreea- 
bly. The schools of the First Church, the Second Church 
and the Presbyterian Church came in a body. Other 
schools were numerously represented. And thus the 
bi-centennial celebration was fitl}- concluded. 

The second part of Dr. Palmer's historical discourse 
treated of the First Church after the division in 1830. 
Announcing the same text which he used on the 12th, he 
proceeded as follows: 

The withdrawal of so large a proportion of the First 
Church was to those who remained a matter of sincere 
regret. But they by no means lost heart. The}^ were 
about one hundred and seventy in number, and on January 
31, 1830, with entire unanimity renewed the call to Rev. 
John Blatchford, then of Stillwater, N. Y., and he promptly 
accepted it. He was born here, May 24, 1799, during his 
father's pastorate, but was removed before he was five 
years old with the rest of the family to Lansingburg, 
where his boyhood was spent. He graduated at Union 
College in 1820, and studied theology in Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the Pres- 
byterian Church in Pittstown, N. Y., in August, 1823; and 
in April, 1825, he was installed over the Presbyterian 
Church in Stillwater. He was installed here February 
10, 1830, and continued until July 26, 1836, when he 
was dismissed at his own request, the health of his wife 
obliging him to change his residence. She was born May 
12, 1805, the daughter of Eliphalet and Martha (Herri- 
man) VVickes, of Jamaica. N. Y. His home here was on 
Golden Hill street, on the north side near its present inter- 
section with Harrison street. He removed to the west, 
and resided successively at Jacksonville, where he was 
Acting-President of Illinois College, and Chicago, where 
he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and at 
Wheeling, Va. From 1841 to 1844 he was connected with 
Marion College, in Missouri, the latter part of the period 
as President. Thence he removed to West Ely, Mo., and 
thence in 1847 to Quincy, 111., where he died in April, 



—144— 

1858. He received from Marion College, in 1841, the 
degree of D.D. 

Mr. Blatchford was a man of medium stature, in figure 
well-proportioned, cheerful in his habit, of a genial spirit, 
and of frank and pleasing manners. His appearance was 
attractive, and he was an acceptable preacher. He had a 
bright and ready mind, a somewhat effusive style, spoke 
in a sympathetic and winning way, and with a good deal 
of unction. He was a particularly effective preacher in 
revival seasons. He came from be3'ond the limits of New 
England, and did not enter into Connecticut controversies, 
3'et his S3'mpathies were decidedly with the more advanced 
party. The church quickl}- felt his influence, and before 
much above a year had elapsed nearly as many as had 
withdrawn were added to its numbers, and its strength 
was restored. He took an active part himself, and was 
skillful in enlisting others, in all kinds of Christian work, 
and was heartily in sj'mpathy with missionary operations. 
He organized here a Young Men's Temperance Society, 
into which were gathered nearly all the choice youth of 
the town. A copy of the constitution is still extant with 
nearly two hundred and twenty-five names annexed, of 
whom some are here to-day. It was an interesting and a 
sanguine time, and he was in touch with it. A great 
advance in religion during the half-centur}' since the Rev- 
olution was recognized, and there were happy auguries of 
coming progress. His removal was greatly regretted. 
The church in parting with him testified strongly to his 
faithful, acceptable, and successful performance of his 
ministerial duties. 

There succeeded to him a man of a very different type. 
The Rev. John Woodbridge was the son of Sylvester and 
Mind well (Lyman) Woodbridge, and was born in South- 
ampton, Mass., December 2, 1784. He was of Puritan 
descent, and himself a Puritan of the Puritans. He reck- 
oned among his ancestors not only some eminent divines, 
but Governor Dudley, and the apostle Eliot. He fitted 
for college at Westfield and Deerfield Academies. He 
graduated at Williams in 1804. He studied theology at 



— 145- 

Goshen, Conn., with Rev. Asahel Hooker, and was licensed 
to preach at Sharon, June, 1807. Soon after he was called 
to Woodbridge, Conn., but declined the overture. He 
then labored for some months in the Black River country, 
in New York, as a missionary. Later he was called to a 
church in Philadelphia, but did not accept. Toward the 
end of 1809 he began to preach in Hadley, Mass. Here 
he was ordained June 20, 1810, and fulfilled a long and 
honorable pastorate. He married May 4, 1814, Mary 
Ann, daughter of Major Thomas Se\'mour, and his second 
wife, Susan Bull. She was born June 16, 1789, and died 
in Hadley January 16, 1858. In 1825 he received from his 
Alma Mater the degree of D.D. Early in 1830 he was 
called to Bowery Church in New York City, and declined. 
Later the call was renewed and accepted. He was dis- 
missed from Hadle}', September 15, 1830, and installed in 
New York October i. In 1836 he was dismissed from the 
Bowery Church, and a new enterprise was commenced by 
his friends in the Chapel of New York University, but 
the financial crisis of 1837 led to the relinquishment of the 
enterprise, and he accepted a call to Bridgeport. He was 
installed here June 14, 1837, and continued some seven- 
teen months. He was dismissed November 20, 1838. In 
the following April he was installed over the North 
Church in New Hartford, where he remained until Janu- 
ary, 1842. Thence he returned to Hadley, where he was 
installed Februar}- 16 over a part of his former church, 
organized as a new one. Here he remained until the 
autumn of 1861, when he went to Chicago to reside. He 
died September 26, 1869, in Waukegan, 111., at the age of 
eighty-five years. 

Dr. Woodbridge was beyond question a man of very 
unusual powers— of a vigorous mind, a strong will, of 
warm affections. His personal presence was commanding, 
his courage unquestioned, his integrity recognized. He 
was of scholarly habits, and considerable learning. He 
was an aggressive and stalwart controversialist in the 
realm of theology. In the position here, he was doubtless 
a misfit. He came here from a Presbyterian pastorate in 



— 146 — 

the year in which the Presbyterian Church was divided. 
His sympathies had been with the Old School part3\ He 
was extremely staunch in his conviction that the theolog- 
ical views which he had received were the very substance 
of the Gospel. He encountered here very strong preju- 
dices against the views he held, and was conscientiously 
the more strenuous in urging his opinions because aware 
of their unpopularity. The contrast of his sentiments and 
of his manner with those of his predecessor operated 
unfavorably for him. His biographer describes his pas- 
torate here as " indeed stormy, but happily for him short." 
He had warm friends, and hearty admirers, but there was 
a general acquiescence in his resignation. He retired, 
not without honor, from a conflict he could not maintain 
He was succeeded b}' Rev. John H. Hunter in about 
three months. Mr. Hunter was born in New York Cit}', 
in March, 1807. He graduated at Union College in 1825, 
and studied theology at Princeton Seminary. He was or- 
dained over the church in Fairfield, December 17, 1828, and 
continued until January 15, 1834. He was installed pastor of 
the North Church in West Springfield August 24, 1835, and 
dismissed thence February 16, 1837. He was installed here 
February 27, 1839, and continued until November 13, 1845. 
Mrs. Hunter was Julia Maria, daughter of Daniel and Sarah 
(Plant) Judson, of Stratford. She was born July 11, 181 1. 
Both were favorably known here at their coming, and the 
church increased under his ministry. In 1844 some 
twenty-five were added at one time. He was a brilliant, 
but eccentric man ; a man of genius, but of that type of 
genius which is often erratic, and which, in its decadence, 
sometimes approaches the borderland adjacent to insanity. 
He was of medium stature, of good appearance, but had a 
way of carrying his chin low, and far forward, so as to 
give his shoulders the look of one who stooped. From 
this position of the head, he looked over his glasses with 
a penetrating eye, in a wa}' to be very definitely recol- 
lected. He was not eminently a student ; was fond of 
out-door life, of walking excursions, and especially of 
fishing. He spoke with a tone strongly nasal, from the 



— 147— 

presence of a pol3'p in his nostril. He had a grotesque 
humor about him, which sometimes appeared in his relig- 
ious services, and alwa3's made him an agreeable com- 
panion. His style was singularly unstudied and pure. 
Without apparent effort, in speaking or in composition, 
he seemed to abound in matter. His thoughts were for 
the most part pertinent and often valuable, but there was 
a constant scintillation of sharp, or fanciful, or striking 
suggestions, which was a kind of by-play of his mind. 
This excited and fastened attention, while it somewhat 
detracted from the directness of discourse. Sometimes, 
in this sidevvise fashion, he would hit or thrust rather 
hard. His theological opinions conformed to the prevail- 
ing orthodoxy, but he was not much given to expounding 
them. He aimed rather to give men impulses in the direc- 
tion of the practical life than to quicken their thinking, 
and he seemed less careful to hold up to men the highest 
moral ideals, than to set before them a reasonably high 
and yet manifestly practicable morality. The action upon 
his resignation was accompanied by considerable excite- 
ment. A financial difference between him and the Society 
occasioned not a little heated feeling. But he left strong 
friends, and an impression of himself in the life and the 
traditions of the church which only a man of very decided 
character could have created. After leaving here he 
went west to look after some lands which his father had 
acquired, and was not again settled in the ministry. He 
spent the remainder of his days in a somewhat wandering 
life in the west and southwest, preaching, teaching, trad- 
ing in land — miscellaneously employed. He died in Texas, 
February 22, 1872. 

His successor was the Rev. Benjamin St. John Page. 
He was born in Northford, July 18, 1815. He graduated 
at Western Reserve College in 1834, and studied theology 
in Yale Divinity School. He was ordained by the Grand 
River Presbytery, at Painesville, Ohio, February 10, 1839. 
His wife was Emily Benjamin, daughter of Samuel and 
Charlotte A. (De Witt) Maltby. At the date of his ordi- 
nation he was supplying the church in Chester, Ohio. In 



—148— 

1840 he came to New Haven and spent a year in study. 
He returned to his father's home in Euclid, Ohio, and for 
some years was unable to assume a permanent charge on 
account of invalid health, but served temporarily several 
churches acceptabl}'. He came here from Euclid. He 
was installed February 10, 1847, and continued until 
August 30, 1853. After leaving here he was located as 
stated supply, in Durham three years, in North Haven 
six years, in Durham again two years. Subsequently he 
resided atWinsted, without charge, a year or more; then 
two years or less in Milwaukee, Wis., and then he became 
stated supply of a Presbyterian church in Warren, O., 
where he died November 9, 1868. 

He was a plain, somewhat angular and ungraceful man 
in appearance, but by no means without abilities. He 
would not be thought remarkable for refinement of mind 
or manner, but was industrious and studious, and labored 
hard to meet the demands made upon him by his charge. 
Many of his sermons were unusually well written, close, 
vigorous, and well-applied ; full of earnest, fresh, and even 
powerful thinking, in well-chosen speech. But his aver- 
age of performance was hardly of this high character. 
His preaching was not always acceptable in matter or 
st3de, and sometimes went aside from what good taste 
requires, in pursuit of originality. He was very much 
indebted as a man and as a pastor to an eminently judi- 
cious and helpful wife, who was much esteemed in all rela- 
tions, and whose influence over him was most happy. He 
had very little to do with the churches around, with the 
churches at large, or with enterprises of beneficence, but 
kept himself very much within his own field of labor. He 
was in many respects a fairly capable man, but could not 
easily adapt himself to circumstances or to others' tastes, 
and hence failed somewhat in the delicate relations of a 
pastor. His soundness of character and general fidelity 
to his convictions were undoubted. 

In the course of his pastorate the present house of wor- 
ship was erected. It was built b}' subscription, and the 
paper bears date June i, 1848. The previous house on 




THE FOURTH EDIFICE. 



—149— 

this site was removed a short distance northward, and 
occupied while the new one was building. It was used 
for the last time April 7, 1850. It was sold for the use of 
Christ Church, and removed to a site on John st. west of 
Broad, where it was accidental!}' destroyed b}' fire in 
185 1. The new edifice was dedicated on Thursday, April 
II, 1850, and opened on the following Sabbath. Messrs. 
Freeman C. Bassett, Ira Sherman, Hanford Lyon, and 
Sherman Hartwell were the building committee, and Mr. 
Thomas Dixon of Stamford was the architect. 

It was nearly ten months after Mr. Page's dismission 
before his place was filled. His successor was the Rev. 
Joseph Hard}' Towne. He was born in Salem, Mass., 
May 27, 1805. He was the son of Solomon and Lydia 
(Goodale) Towne. He was fitted for college at the Salem 
Latin School. He graduated at Yale in 1827, where he 
was the class-mate of Dr. William Adams and of Dr. 
Horace Bushnell. Soon after his graduation he entered 
the law office of Messrs. Pickering & Otis, in Boston, 
whither his parents had removed. He remained in this 
office three years, with the intention of following the legal 
profession. His purpose was changed, however, and he 
commenced the study of theology, residing with his 
parents and pursuing his studies under the direction of 
his pastor. He was licensed to preach by the Suffolk 
South Association, September 6, 1831. He preached for a 
while at Fitchburg, but declined to settle there. Later 
he was called to the Pleasant St. Church in Portsmouth, 
N. H. This call he accepted, and he was ordained there 
June 13, 1832. Just previous to this event, May i, 1832, 
he married Eliza J., daughter of Caleb and Eliza (Childs) 
Wiley, of Lynn, Mass. She was born December 11, 1815, 
and continued the beloved companion of his life until 
September 18, 1894. 

It was the testimony of one of his contemporaries whom' 
I knew well, that the young pastor excited large expecta- 
tions of his future usefulness, and was everywhere most 
favorably received. In the autumn of 1836 he was called 
to Salem Street Church in Boston, to succed the Rev. Dr. 



— ISO— 

Blagden, and he was there installed June 2, 1837. He 
continued in this relation until December 27, 1843, when he 
was dismissed at his own request. A new enterprise was set 
on foot in Boston known as the Leyden Chapel, in which 
a new departure was taken in the order of worship. Here 
a church was organized Februar}^ 7, 1844, and he was 
installed pastor just three weeks later (Februar}' 28). 
The new church seemed a promising movement, but failed 
to fulfil the expectations of its promoters, and was dis- 
banded in July, 1847. He was called thence to High 
Street Church in Lowell, where he was installed December 
15, 1847. There he continued until May 22, 1S54, when 
he was dismissed to accept a call to this church. He was 
installed June 14, 1854. His home was at 232 Main street. 

His reception here can be best described in his own 
words,* written after fift}' }'ears. " After ray installation 
I found myself the pastor of a united, affectionate and 
generous people. The )-ears of my pastorate in Bridge- 
port are a sunny spot in the landscape of my ministerial 
life. I was then in the vigor of my days ; all my children 
were growing up around me, for death had not then 
invaded the happy circle ; ray wife, in the full bloom of 
her womanhood, gladdened my home with the sunshine of 
her presence and love. My parish was one great family. 
A wide and most inviting field of usefulness was open 
before me." Under such happy auspices commenced a 
ministr)' still pleasantl}^ remembered here. 

The most noteworthy event of it perhaps was the deep 
religious interest in the winter of 1857-8, in which the 
church was greatly blessed, and received large accessions. 
Thirty-eight were added at one time, sevent3'-four during 
the year. His preaching was extremely acceptable to his 
people. He acquired in college the reputation of a grace- 
ful and effective writer. His study of the law lent to his 
earlier style an increase of vigor, and the habit of con- 
structive reasoning. During his residence in Boston he 
added to his general culture. He had also engaged in 
literar}' labors there, jointly with Dr. Parsons Cooke. He 

*MS. Letter. 



—151— 

was conservative in his theological views and sympathies, 
but never a controversialist. He had a rich vein of senti- 
ment, and not a little of poetic feeling. One of his dis- 
criminating hearers left on record the testimon}'^ that 
" many of his discourses were rewritten, and worthy of any 
pulpit in the land." He was speciall}- gifted in prayer, 
and endeared himself as a sympathizing pastor. He 
resigned his charge after four years and was dismissed 
June 29, 1848. On October 28th of the same year he was 
installed pastor of St. Peter's (Presbyterian) Church in 
Rochester, N. Y., and continued there until March 9, i860. 
In 1859 ^^ received the degree of D.D., from Marietta Col- 
lege. From June i, i860, to October i, 1861, he was 
stated supply of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in 
Buffalo. Thence he was called to the First Presbyterian 
Church in Milwaukee, Wis., which he served for four 
years. After this he rendered occasional services, but 
was not again a pastor. By a regretable misfortune his 
voice became impaired, and finally the disability became 
permanent. After leaving the west he gave himself to 
other pursuits, and for many years has resided in Andover, 
Mass., spending tranquilly the afternoon of life. 

After six months' interval he was succeeded by Rev. 
Matson Meier-Smith. This gentleman was born at Har. 
lem, N. Y., April 4, 1826. On his father's side he was of 
Connecticut descent, and had in his veins the best of Pur- 
itan blood. The founder of the Mather family was one of 
his ancestors. On his mother's side he was of purely 
German extraction. He was the son of Dr. Albert Smith 
and Emil}^ Maria, daughter of Casper Meier, a native of 
Bremen. He graduated at Columbia College in 1843, and 
studied theology in Union Theological Seminary, with the 
class of 1847. He was ordained by the Presb3-tery of 
Geneva, October 23, 1849, pastor of the church in Ovid, 
N. Y. In the same year, November 14, he married Mary 
Stuart, daughter of Norman White, Esq., of New York 
City. He resigned his charge in September, 1850, on 
account of apprehensions concerning his health. In the 
spring of 1851 he was called to Brookline, Mass., where 



— 152— 

he was installed June 5, succeeding Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs. 
This pastorate he fulfilled until November 23, 1858, when 
he resigned to accept a call to this church. He was 
installed here Januar}^ 5, 1859. He was dismissed June 6, 
1865, and at once entered the Episcopal Church. March 
6, 1866, he was ordained deacon, and April 20, priest, by 
Bishop Eastburn of Massachusetts. May 6 he became 
rector of Trinity Parish in Newark, N. J., and continued 
there until April 16, 1871. During the year following he 
travelled in Europe. December i, 1872, he became rector 
of St. John's Parish in Hartford, and continued until May 
I, 1876, when he resigned to accept the Professorship of 
Homiletics in the Divinit}- School in Philadelphia. In this 
chair he continued until his decease, March 26, 18S7. He 
received from Williams College, in 1856, the degree of M.A., 
and from Columbia College, in 1863, the degree of D.D. 

Mr. Meier-Smith's home here was at 276 Washington 
avenue. He came hither in response to urgent solicita- 
tions and with the hope of large usefulness. But he was 
early made conscious of an element of opposition, which 
proved a serious annoyance, all the more that the expres- 
sions of it were somewhat petty, and persistent to a 
degree that was unusual. The intense political excite- 
ments preceding and accompanying the outbreak of the 
Civil war added to his discomforts, his patriotic sympa- 
thies leading him to the utterance, in a manl}^ and out- 
spoken way, of sentiments not welcome to all his parish- 
ioners, and most unwelcome to some elements in the com- 
munit}-. It is evident from what his biographer records 
that while he had warm friends, and for the most part a 
loyal support from the church, he felt his position here to 
be something less than comfortable. His experience 
brought to its consummation a process which began at a 
much earlier date. He wrote to me some years later in 
the following words:* "If you refer at all to my defec- 
tion, it may be as well for 3'ou to know that it was no 
sudden movement, but the result of some ten years of 
earnest thought and painful perplexity. The real reason 
why I gave up m}' pastorate when 1 did was that 1 might 

* MS. Letter. 



— 1=; 



5 J" 



enter the church of my convictions." Of course such an 
event could not take place without exciting much feeling, 
and much comment, but the church he left took as kindly 
a view of his conduct as could reasonably be expected. 
His ministry here was blessed to the church ; he received 
one hundred and seventy-six to its membership, and won 
the friendship of many who tenderly cherish his memory. 
He left behind him here the reputation of excellent abili- 
ties and an amiable character. His discourses were 
thoughtful and well-reasoned. His subjects were well- 
chosen. While his German extraction appeared some- 
what in his looks, his manner, and his habits of mind, and 
he often indulged in sentences of unusual length, no one 
complained of obscurity in his style, and he was regarded 
as an instructive and interesting preacher. He was 
remarkable for his earnest and reverent prayers, and 
made himself much beloved in his work as a pastor. It 
was certainly from no want of facility in the devotional 
exercises of the pulpit that he chose to make the transi- 
tion from the Congregational to the Episcopal ministry. 
During his pastorate, and largely through his efforts, and 
personal sacrifices, the existing Chapel building was 
reared, and it was first used at Christmas, i860. 

Before the end of the year in which he was dismissed, 
the thoughts of the church had been directed to another 
minister. Rev. George Richards was born in New Lon- 
don, November 2, 1816. He was the son of Peter and 
Ann C. (Huntington) Richards. He graduated at Yale 
in the class of 1840. Alter teaching for a time he entered 
Andover Theological Seminary. In 1843 he became a 
student in the Divinity School at Yale, and in 1844 a tutor 
in Yale College. He was ordained October 8, 1845, as 
associate pastor of the Central Congregational Church in 
Boston, Mass., the colleague of Rev. Dr. W. M. Rogers. 
In 185 1, by the death of the latter, he became sole pastor, 
and continued in that relation until April 20, 1859. After 
a foreign tour he became acting pastor of the church in 
Litchfield, Conn., commencing in Deeember, 1S60. He 
closed this engagement after five years, to accept a 
call to this church, and was installed January 3, 1866. In 



— 154— 

1 868 he was elected a member of the Corporation of Yale 
College. He was dismissed from his pastorate August 
24, 1870, and died October 20, in the same year. His wife 
was Anna M. Woodruff, to whom he was married in Phil- 
adelphia, September 29, 1846. Mr. Richards was a man 
of refinement and excellent scholarship. He cultivated 
while in college facility in extemporaneous speaking. 
During his tutorship he enjoyed among the students the 
sobriquet of "the Mouth of the Faculty." He always 
spoke easily and felicitously. He was in appearance 
slight, neither tall nor stout. He was extremely neat, 
almost to the point of fastidiousness, in his person and 
apparel. He was somewhat precise also in his manner. 
But he was highly gifted as a preacher, and a lover 
of his work. The style of his written discourses was 
faultless, remarkable for lucidity, elegance and grace. 
Nor were they wanting in force of argument or urgency 
of appeal. His extemporaneous discourses were equally 
acceptable in their way. In his weekly lectures he never 
used notes. He had a firmness of voice which, without 
apparent efTort on his part, carried every syllable to his 
remotest hearer. His ministry began with the most 
favorable auspices, and was increasingly acceptable for 
two or three years. But to the sorrow of all who loved 
him, he became the victim of a disease of the cerebellum, 
occasioning loss of vision, and impairment of faculty, 
which resulted in increasing disability and distress, and 
finally in his death. Moreover, after the impairment 
began, but before it was understood, certain actions of his 
occasioned comment, mistrust, and in some instances accu- 
sation. Not altogether unnaturally, perhaps, his charac- 
ter was called in question. But as time went on, and his 
true condition became apparent, the opinion prevailed that 
the actions alluded to were indications not of pravity but 
of disease ; and that the record of a life of exceptional 
purity and honor should not be overborne by the incidents 
of a period of physical disaster. This was the mature 
conclusion of the majority of the church. Having m3'self 
collected testimonies of medical experts and impartial 
observers — among others that of the venerated head of 



—155— 

Yale College, Dr. VVoolsey — I came to the same conclu- 
sion ; and, without reflecting in the slightest upon the 
excellent men who at the time judged differently, I feel 
constrained to record my deliberate judgment that the 
memory of Mr. Richards should be regarded as without a 
stain. 

Since his dismission twenty-five years have passed. Two 
full years intervened before a successor was installed, and 
that successor was the present incumbent. Of him, of 
course, nothing is to be said. Of the period much might 
be written, did the occasion permit. Many recollections 
crowd upon me to which I dare not attempt to give utter- 
ance. A great company of faces come up before me whom 
I shall see no more on earth. I found here a congregation 
imposing in its appearance and interesting in its manifest 
intelligence and seriousness of purpose. I remember 
counting at one time over thirty liberally educated men 
among the stated attendants. Among them were many of 
the foremost citizens of the town. But they were largely 
of a generation that was beginning to pass away, and the 
fact that so man}' of those who welcomed me I have m3'self 
outlived casts a shadow over the retrospect of my minis- 
try. Moreover, of the younger generation, which has 
succeeded, a surprisingly large proportion has found 
homes and opportunities of living elsewhere, and I think 
readily of a multitude of such as would naturally have 
filled the vacated places, scattered far and wide over many 
states, and even to the far west borders of the nation. 
None the less is there remaining here a goodly number of 
Christian men and women, young men and maidens, youth 
and children, easily keeping alive a pastor's hopes and 
sympathies, and most encouraging to his devout endeav- 
ors. Toward them one and all I cherish feelings which I 
cannot express and they cannot fathom. It is with undi- 
minished affection for this ancient church that I have come 
to this anniversary. I rejoice that it has been so fitly cele- 
brated. May other centuries be added to the honorable 
and fruitful history which we have commemorated — and 
the blessing of Almighty God rest upon it to the remotest 
generation ! 



-156- 
HISTORIC SITES. 

1. Site of First Residence. ^f^' ^"""l^f^v ^; ^- T'"" ^^'^ 

Ave. and VVasnington Ave. 

2. Site of First Meeting House. ■., .. „ „.„ „ , . 

, Meeting House Hill, Park Ave. 
1695. 

c „.- r- c„,. u„., „ West side of Park Ave. near North 

3. Site of Early School House. „ 

4. Site of Second Meeting House. N. W. corner Park Ave. and North 

1717. Ave. 

5. Site of First St. John P. E. N. W. corner North Ave. and Wood 

Church. Ave. 

6. Site of Residence of Rev. On ''The Place," at the present N. 

Robert Ross. Third Pastor E. corner of North Ave. and Laurel 

Stratfield. Ave. 

7. The Stratfield "Training n.w. corner North Ave. and Clinton 

Ground and entrance to a „g 
Stratfield Burial Ground. 

8. Nichols Tavern, op the time 

of the Revolution, where No. 910 North Ave. 

Washington was enter- ' 

tained. 

9. Franklin Mile Stone. 20 r> •.„ w„i,„io -r„„„..„ 

^ ., ., „ Opposite Nichols lavern. 

Miles to N. H. ^'^ 

10. Site of Residence of Rev. 

Charles Chauncey. First Grove St. near Fairfield Ave. 
Pastor Stratfield. 

11. Site of Residence of Rev. 

Samuel Cooke. Second Pas- Junction Grove St. and Laurel Ave. 
tor Stratfield. 

12. Site of Residence of Matthew 

Sherman, d. 169S, and last Park Ave., next lot north of the 

residence of Samuel Sher- Second Meeting House. 
man. Sen., d. Apr. 5, 1700. 

13. Site of Residence of Deacon Park Ave. extension — on the top of 

David Sherman. Toilsome Hill. 

14. Site of Residence of Colonel Fahbeld Ave. (west of Hancock 

John Burr and the Historic ^^a \ 

Oak. -^^^^ 

15. Site of Residence of Richard S. E. corner Clinton Ave. and Maple- 

Hubbell, Sen. wood Ave. 



—157— 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 

[Hon. John Sherman, U. S. S.] 

Senate Chamber. ) 
Washington, May i6, 1S95. ) 
Mr. Charles Sherwood. 

My Dear Sir : — I have received a very kind note from Rev. Dr. Cliarles Ray 
Palmer inviting me to join in your celebration of the two-hundredth 
anniversary of the organization of the Church of Christ in Stratfield. It 
would give me great pleasure to accept, but engagements have already been 
made which will prevent me from doing so. * * * 

Very truly yours, 

JOHN SHERMAN. 

(A descendant of Samuel Sherman, Sr., who was the father of Deacon 
David, and of Matthew Sherman.) 

[Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, LL.D.] 

New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. 

Grand Central Depot. 
New York, May 21, 1895. 

Z>tar Dr. Palmer : — I am in receipt of your very kind letter of May 14th. 
I am connected with the Chauncey family, and therefore the more regret 
that it will be impossible for me to be with you on the 13th of June. 

Very truly yours, 

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. 

(A descendant of Rev. Charles Chauncey, through his mother's family.) 

[Hon. John W. Sterling, LL.D.] 

44 Wall St., New York, May 28, 1895. 

Dear Sir : — Yours of the 27th instant is at hand. 

I thank you very much for the invitation you have extended to me to 
respond for my family to some commemorative mention upon the occasion 
of the two-hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Church of 
Christ in Stratfield, on the 12th and 13th of June next; but regret that I 
shall not be able to attend on that memorable occasion. 

Hoping that everything may pass off as successfully as you could wish, I 
am Yours truly, 

JOHN W. STERLING. 

Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, Bridgeport, Conn. 

(A descendant of Jacob Sterling.) 

[Rev. J. Hardy Towne, D.D.] 

Andover, Mass., May 27th, 1895. 
Rev. C. R. Palmer, D.D. 

My Dear Brother. — The cordial and very generous invitation which you 
and friends in Bridgeport extend to me and my daughter, to be present with 



-158- 

you at the bi-centennial, deeply affects me. Nothing would be more gratifi- 
ing to my feelings than to comply with your request. 1 can never forget 
Bridgeport, and the dear old North. I can never forget the happy years of 
my pastorate there. They remain, and ever will remain, a verdant and 
fragrant memory in the landscape of the past. But circumstances over which 
I have no control compel me to forgo the pleasure to which you welcome 
me. I am now an old man, a very old man. This verydaj'ismy ninetieth 
birthday ! My hand in writing trembles with the infirmity of age. I have 
hardly crossed my door-step for several months. The journey would be too 
much for me ; and even if I could reach Bridgeport, the excitement of the 
occasion, and the tender reminiscences that would be ever in my thoughts, 
■would be a strain which, in my present feeble state, it would be imprudent 
for me to venture. I shall often think of you, and wish I could be with j'ou. 
That you may have a rich blessing from the great Head of the Church, and 
that the union of two sister churches in the religious festivities to which 
you are looking forward with common interest, maj' knit you together in 
still closer fellowship and love, is the prayer of one who must ever rejoice 
in your prosperity. 

I shall look for the report of your meetings with peculiar interest. 

May our good Lord, my dear brother, spare 3'our useful life man)' years. 

Affectionately, 

JOSEPH H. TOVVNE. 



[Rev. George L. Walker, D.D.] 

46 PR 
Hartford, Conn., June 8, 1895 



46 Prospect Street. ) 



My Dear Dr. Palmer. 

I am very sorry that an unavoidable engagement at Andover prevents my 
attendance on the interesting exercises which are promised at your Church 
anniversary. You have a most interesting theme : your church has had a 
distinguished ministry, and the opportunity of telling its story is one which 
I have no doubt you rejoice in and will magnify. 

I wish I could hearyour address and the others which will be spoken, and 
only deny myself this privilege under sheer necessity. 

Verj' truly yours, 

GEO. LEON WALKER. 

[Prof. Henry A. Rowland, LL.D., Johns Hopkins University.] 



915 Cathedral Street, 
Baltimore, 



Street, ) 
June 2, 1S95. ) 



Rev. Charles Ray Palmer. 

Dear Sir: — I thank you most cordi.ally for the kind invitation to be pres- 
ent at the r\vo-hundredlh anniversary of the First Church of Bridgeport. 

My engagements, however, will prevent me from accepting it, although 
nothing would give me greater pleasure than to do so. 



—159— 

I would especially like to meet my relative, Rowland B. Lacey, Esq., to 
whom I wish to be remembered. 

Yours sincerely, 

HENRY A. ROWLAND. 

(A descendant of Deacon Henry Rowland.) 



[Rev. Horace C. Hovey, D.D.] 

Newburvport, Mass., June 5, 1895. 

Messrs. Dr. C. R. Palmer, Chas. Sherwood, and others. Committee of 
Invitation, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Dear Brethren : — On returning from Pittsburgh, last week, I was greatly 
pleased to find your invitation to attend the two-hundredth anniversary of 
the First Church and Society of Bridgeport. 

I have delayed answering, hoping to be able to answer afBrmatively ; but 
my circumstances will not permit me to do so. 

I trust you and your church, and the churches co-operating, may have a 
delightful occasion; and that the signal blessings of the past may be pro- 
phetic of larger blessings yet to come. 

May grace, mercy, and peace abide with you. Amen. 

Fraternally yours, 

HORACE C. HOVEY. 

[Rev. Charles H. Peck.] 

N. Bennington, Vt., May 24, 1895. 
My Dear Mr. Sherwood. 

I am pleased to be remembered by the invitation to the coming celebra- 
tion in North Church. 

I regret it will be quite impossible to attend. 
May the occasion be a most happ)' one to all concerned. 

Very truly yours, 

CHARLES H. PECK. 

[Rev. Alfred T. Waterman.] 

Baldwin, Mich., May 24, 1895. 
Mr. Charles Sherwood, Bridgeport, Conn. 

My Dear Sir : — Your kind invitation to attend the two-hundredth anni- 
versary of the organization of the Church of Christ in Stratfield, is duly at 
hand and greatlj' appreciated. 

I regret to say that it does not appear practicable to allow myself the 
pleasure of being present on that occasion. 

Cordially yours, 

A. T. WATERMAN. 

(A grandson of Rev. Elijah Waterman.) 



— i6o — 

[Mr. David Sherman Lacey.] 

CoRONADO Beach, Calif., Maj' 22, 1895. 
Gentlemen of the Committee. 

Dear Sirs : — Your cordial inviiation to be present at celebration is at 
hand. 

It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to receive it, and it is with 
deep regret that I must say, that circumstances will not allow me to be with 
you on the occasion. 

The fac-simile of tankard and cups from the old communion service, 
which heads your invitation, is wonderfully familiar to my eyes, they being 
among the earliest recollections of my boyhood. 

The old North Church is still very dear to me — and I trust and pray that 
it may have a wonderful blessing in the future. 
Very sincerely yours, 

DAVID SHERMAN LACEY. 

(A descendant of Dea. David Sherman, and also of Matthew Sherman.) 
[Miss Julia E. Hunter.] 

No. 62 West 93D Street. 1 
New York, June 7, 1895. j 
R. B. Lacey, Esq.. Bridgeport, Conn. 

Dear Sir : — Please accept my thanks for the cordial invitation from the 
committee and j'ourself to attend the two-hundredth anniversary of the 
First Church and Society in Bridgeport, and my regrets that I cannot be 
present. 
My mother, now eighty-four years old, desires to send greetings. 
Yours very truly, 

JULIA E. HUNTER. 
(Daughter of Rev. John H. Hunter.) 

[Rev. J. J. Wooley.] 

Pawtucket, R. I., June 3, 1895. 
My Dear Mr. Lacey. 

I regret that an engagement here, or in Providence, will prevent my com- 
ing to Bridgeport to attend the " two-hundredth anniversary" of the church 
organized in Stratfield, June 13, 1695. It will be an event of unusual inter- 
est, and I am sorry to be so situated as to be denied the privilege of attend- 
ing the celebration. With many thanks for your invitation and kind 

regards, I am Very truly yours, 

J. J. WOOLEY. 
(Descendant of Stephen Burroughs.) 

[Mrs. Mary D. Wilco.x.] 

Dickinson House, Lawrenceville School, 1 
Lawrenceville, N. J., May 20, 1895. ) 
Mr. Rowland B. Lacey. 

Dear Friend : — The invitation to attend the two-hundredth anniversary of 
the First Church of Bridgeport came to me to-day. 



— i6i— 

I wish to thank you for so kindly remembering us. 

As a descendant of one of the first deacons, it would give me much pleas- 
ure to be present at the exercises, but I fear that at that time it will not be 
possible for me to leave home. » * * 

I remain yours very sincerely, 

MARY DUDLEY WILLCOX. 

(Descendant of Dea. David Sherman, and Dea. Henry Rowland.) 



[Mr. Joseph D. Bartley.] 

Bradford, Mass., June lo, iSgs. 
My Dear Dr. Palmfr. 

We thank you for the invitation to be present at the celebration of the 
" two-hundredth anniversary " of your church. It is pleasant to be remem- 
bered, though our names no longer stand on your roll, and I need not say it 
would give us the greatest pleasure, if it were possible, to join in the exer- 
cises of the occasion. 

The ten years of our connection with the dear old church are fraught 
with precious and tender memories. * * * 

You know we loved the church service, the Sabbath School, the Christian 
Endeavor Society, and the "mid-week meeting" in that upper room of 
hallowed associations ; and that our tender experiences connected with your 
own dear family bring loving and sympathetic tears as I write. May the 
record of the noble church and people be an inspiration to still greater 
results in the future, to the kingdom of our dear common Lord. 

Though absent in body, %ve shall be with you in thought and spirit, on 
next Wednesday and Thursda)'. 

In behalf of my family and myself, 

I am yours most cordially, 

JOSEPH DANA BARTLEY. 

[Rev. Albert F. Pierce.] 

Danbury, Conn., June ii, 1895. 
Dear Dr. Palmer. 

I would greatly enjoy being present at the exercises to-morrow and Thurs- 
day commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the First Church, 
but absence from the state prevents. I hereby send most cordial greeting 
to the church, congratulating it upon its history of fruitfulness and good 
works, and praying for it an even more glorious future. Please accept for 
yourself my personal felicitations, together with the wish that you may long 
be spared to your church, and to your hosts of friends in all parts of the 
state. 
With sincere and hearty congratulations and best wishes, I remain 

Most truly yours, 

ALBERT F. PIERCE. 
II 



1 62 — 

[Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler.] 

New Haven, June ii, 1895. 
Charles Sherwood, Esq., Bridgeport, Conn. 

My Dear Sir : — Please accept for j'ourself and your committee my cordial 
thanks for you kind invitation. Until to-day I thought it might be possible 
for me to come ; but I find now that I cannot get away. 

Sincerely yours, 

A. M. WHEELER. 

[Mr. Walter Hubbell.] 

New York, June 11, 1895. 
Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Dear Sir : — * * It is with regret that I must say I cannot be present on 
June I2th and 13th at your two-hundredth anniversarj'. 

* * * I am descended from Richard Hubbell, Sr., and his son Richard 
Hubbell, Jr., both of whose names are among those of the nine original 
members, the founders. 

Hoping the anniversary will be a grand celebration, worthy of so event- 
ful an occasion, I am 

Yours sincerely, 

WALTER HUBBELL. 

[Rev. Henry Blodgett, D.D.] 

Plainfield, N. J., June 11, 1895. 
My Dear Dr. Palmer. 

I regret exceedingly that I cannot on the morrow and the day following 
sit with you and my good friends in Bridgeport under the shadow of two 
centuries that are past, and commemorate the good hand of our Lord upon 
us, and the lives of his faithful servants. May the church continue and 
flourish while Bridgeport remains, and until the Lord comes ! You must 
rejoice in your lengthened pastorate, which covers more than one-tenth of 
the whole existence of the church. My best wishes are with you all. 

We leave for Clifton Springs to-morrow to attend the convention of mis- 
sionaries at that place. 

Yours most sincerely, 

H. BLODGET. 

[Rev. Gerald H, Beard, Ph.D.] 

South Norwalk, June 12, 1895. 
My Dear Mr. Palmer. 

As I wrote to Mr. Sherwood, I intended to be present at the anniversary 
exercises of your church to-day. But I find that after all, I cannot have 
that pleasure. 

Please extend, instead, my congratulations to your church; and accept 
my sincere regard and good wishes for yourself. 

May God continue to bless and prosper you in the noble work you are 
doing. I trust these anniversary days may be full of satisfaction and 
blessed memories for you, and a benefit to all. 

Fraternally yours. 

GERALD H. BEARD. 



—163— 



RECORD OF MEMBERSHIP OF THE FIRST 
CHURCH OF BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 

1695 to 1806. 

The following list has been practically compiled from the scanty material 
found in the ancient volumes of the Church and Society records and is 
necessarily imperfect. The invaluable account kept by the Rev. Charles 
Chauncey, first minister of the church, 1695 to 1714, was not continued by 
his successors. The partial list of baptisms, marriages and deaths given, 
the mortuary record kept by Abijah Sterling, Esq., from 1767 to 1802, and 
the transcript of inscriptions on stones in the old Stratfield burj'ing-ground, 
copied by the late William R. Bunnell, Esq., also Mr. Bunnell's list of 
family records, all found in the first of the church volumes, have been 
drawn upon liberally, and by comparison of dates and relationships an 
approximately correct account has been obtained. In addition to the 
membership of 1695, of ten males and fifteen females, Rev. Samuel Cooke 
has left a record for 1731 (which is printed elsewhere, verbatim), showing 
at that time forty-five male and sixty-eight female members in full com- 
munion ; and a list was prepared by Rev. Elijah Waterman, at the begin- 
ning of his ministry, in 1806. The last includes seventeen male and thirty 
female members, forty-seven in all, in full communion ; in addition to 
which were thirty-six men and thirty-three women, a total of sixty-nine, 
who had owned the covenant and brought their children to baptism. 



— 164 — 



LIST OF MEMBERS, 1695 TO 1806, 

ABBREVIATIONS. 
Admitted by Letter. P. Admitted upon Profession of Faith. R.C. Renewed Covenant. F.C. Admitted 
to Full Communion, D. Dismissed, (e. Age. bap. Baptized, vt. Married, d. Died. 
dati. Daughter, s. Son. iv. Wife. ivid. Widow. 



Name. 



Austin, Maj. and Dea. (1S07) John P. 

Austin, Susannah 

Allen, Nehemiah 



1638. 



Admitted. 



L. 1806, fr. N. Haven 
... before 1806. 



Bennett, Lt. James, Sr 

Beardsley, Capt. Samuel, b. 

Bennett, Mary 

Beardsley. Abigail _ 

Bingham, Abel 

Bingham, Elizabeth 

Beardsley, Daniel 

Beardsley, Capt. John. Sr 

Beardsley, Mary (L. July 26, 1702) 

Beardsley, William 

Beardsley, Ebenezer 

Beardsley, Benjamin 

Bennett. "Joseph 

Beardsley, Rebecca 

Bennett, Justice James, Jr 

Bennett, Sarah 

Bennett, Isaac 

Burr, Col. John, Recorder ._ 

Burr, Deborah (Barlow) 

Beardsley, William, Jr 

Beardsley, Elizabeth 

Beardsley. Anne 

Booth, Rachel 

Bur ritt, Sarah.. 

Beecher, Elizabeth 

Booth, Sergt. Dea. Joseph 

Booth, Sarah 

Bennett. Martha 

Beardsley. Nathan 1706 

Bennett, James 

Bennett, — 

Bradley, Abigail 

Bennett, Abigail _ 

Bronson, Moses 

Bronson, Jane 

Booth, Esther 

Burritt, Charles 

Burritt. Mary 

Beardsley, Anneor (Lake),(5rt/. 1705 

Beardslev, Obadiah, bap. 1706 

Beardsley. Mercy 

Burr, 

Beardsley, Deborah (Hull) 

Burrows, Stephen 1720 

Burrows, .'\,bj{iail (French) 

Bennett, Stephen, bap. 1702 

Beardsley, Martha 

Bennett, Lieut. Dea. (1754) "William 



L. 
L. 

L. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
RC, 
R.C, 

F.C, 
F.C. 
F.C, 
F.C, 
F.C. 
F.C, 
F.C, 
F.C, 
R.C, 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C 
F.C, 



Bennett. Eunice? 

Beardsley, Ruth, bap. 1713 

Beardsley, Rebecca, bap. 1716 
Beardsley, Samuel, bap. 1712., 
Beardsley. Andrew, bap, 1713 

Burrows, Patience 

Beardsley, James 

Beardsley, John, Jr., bap. 1704 



R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 



R.C, 



June 13, 1695, 
June 13, 1695, 
July 10. 1605, 
July 10. j6g5. 
May 10, i6g6. 
May 10, 1696. 

, Feb, S, 1607. 

, Feb. 8. 1697. 

, Feb. 8, 1697, 

. Feb. 8, 1697. 

, Feb. 8, 1697. 

, Feb, 8, 1697. 

, Feb. 8, 1697. 

, Feb. 8. 1697. 

, Nov. 7, 1697. 

, Nov. 7, 1697. 
May I, i6g8. 

. Aug. 28, 1698. 

. Aug. 28, 1698. 
1700. 

, Apl, 22, 1705. 

, Feb. 13, 1709. 

. Mch.27, 1709. 

, Dec. 1709. 

, Jan. I, 1710. 

, Jan. 1712. 

.Jan. 1712. 

. Mch. 9. 1712. 

. Mch. 30, 1712. 

. Oct. 26, 1712. 

. Oct. 26, 1712. 

. Oct. 26, 1712. 

, Oct. 26, 1712. 

. Dec. 27, 1713. 

. Mch. 7, 1714. 

Feb. 2, 1718. 
Feb. 2, 1718. 
Aug. 8, i73». 
Oct. 31, 1731, 
Oct. 31, 1731, 
before 1731. 

1731- 
. , ^732- 
Apl. 16, 1732. 
Apl. 16, 1732. 




Remarks. 



lu. of John P, 



Freeman of Fairfield, 1669 



■w. of James, Sr. 
IV. of Saniuel. 
d. June 22, 1707 ;«. 1694, Elizabeth Odell. 



d. after 1731 | 

d. 1732? VI. 2d, 1711, Deborah Hull 

fr. Fairfield d. Jan. 7, 1711 -w, of John. 
(/. after 1718 



R.C. Apl. 16,1732. 
R.C. Mch. 17. 1734. 
R.C. Mch. 17, 1734. 
..|R.C. Mch. 31, 1734. 
.... R.C. Mch.31.173t. 
R.C. Apl. 7. 1734- 
R.C. 1735- 

K.C. Feb. 18, 1736. 



d. after 1700 
d. after 1736 
d. after 1716 



d. after 1736 

d. after 1714 ' iv. of James, Jr, 

^.afteri73i | 

d. June 13, 1750 a, 79. 

d. 1726 IV. of John, ce. 52. 



d, after 1731 



d. 1763 
d. 1784 

d. Aug. 6, 1750 
d. after 1733 
d. after 1731 



D, Apl. 8,1716 
d. after 1750 
d. after 1733 

D. before 1770 



d. after 1731 
(/. after 1735 
d. alter 1733 
d, after 1736 

D. 1756, d. 1788, 
a. 79. 

d. 1796? 



d. 1782 

d. after 1781 

d. after 1736 
d. after 1742 



w. of William. 
lu. of Daniel, 
w. of Jonathan. 
•w. of Peleg. 
dan. of Sarah. 
Deacon 1733; a, 75. 
iv. of Joseph, a. 76. 
iv. of Isaac. 

w.Jan.7,i7i3.Eliz. Hubbe 
s. i:ii James, Jr. 
IV. of James. 

/«. 1717, Ephraim Hubbel 
w/. Jan. 26, 1 714?, Zach.Hu 
[bell; (di'rtK. of James. Ji 
w. of Richard. [tow 

w. of Jonathan; to Ne\ 

IV. of Charles. 

dau. of Daniel. 

s. of John. 

iu. of Obadiah. 

nv. of Sergt. Burr. 

TO. of John, Sr. ; m. 1711. 

fi7= 
IV. of Stephen ; m. Oct. 
s. of James; m. 1724. 

m. Hannah Seeley, 1731, f 
Cath. Hawley, 1739; s. < 
Joseph. 

w. of William. 

dau. of Nathan. 

'"•^735. James; dau.'Sa.tha. 

s. of John. 

s. of John. 

[Beardsley, 173 

m. Rebecca, t//tw, of Nalht 



-i6s- 



Name. 



Admitted. 



ennett. Martha, bap, 1717 R.C. Apl. 4, 1736. 

eardsley, Deborah R.C. Nov.28, 1736. 

eanlsley, Abigail I R.C. Nov.28, 1736. 

rinsinade, Joseph R.C. Oct. 14, 1749. 

rinsmade, Ruth (Winton) ,R.C. Oct. 14, 1749. 

ooth, John _ R.C. Nov. 25, 1749. 

00th. Lydia I R.C. Nov. 25, 1749. 

urr. Capt. ? John, Jr.^ bap. 1698... (R.C. Apl. 15, 1750. 

urr, Eunice ( Booth) R.C. Apl. 15, 1750. 

arloiv. John | R.C. Jan. 6, :75o. 

arlow, Beulah (Bennett), bap. i73i|R.C. Jan. 6, 1750. 

urritt, Josiah jR.C. Sept. 9, 1750. 

urr, William, bap. 1712 | before 1762. 



roth well, Joseph 1740? 

latchford, Rev. Samuel 1767 

each, Dr. and Dea. (1806) James 

Eaton 177S 

ickus, Joseph .,_ 1799 

urroughs, Griswold (Grlzzell) 

each, Huldah 

urr, Jemima 1 

urr, Samuel 

rothwell, Thomas, Sr 1797 

rothvvell, Hannah j 

Lirr, Deborah .--I 



Lirroughs, Edward 

urroughs, Elizabeth 

urroughs, Polly 

iirr, Elijah 1795 



iauncey, Rev. Charles 

launcev. Sarah (Burr) 

rane, Elijah 

rane, Marv 

istle, William 

istle, Rebecca 

iauncey, Israel, b. 1693 



R.C 

F.C, 

RX 

R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C, 
F.C 
R.C 
F.C, 



. before 1762. 
. N0V.22, 1797. 

. before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1S06. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
Mch. 5, 1808. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806.; 

1807. 
before 1806. 

1815. 
before 1806. 1 

1815. : 

before 1806. 

1815. 
before 1806. 

1807. 



.. June 13, 1695. 

F.C. Dec. 20, i6g6. 

R.C. Feb. 8, 1697. 
-..|F.C.Oct. 22,1699. 
... R.C. Mch. 9, 1712. 
... R.C. Mch. 9, 1712. 
... R.C. Nov. 23, 1712. 



iauncey, Robert, <5aA 1701 

■awtord Quintin? 

ioke, Rev. Samuel 

)oke, Anne (Trowbridge) 

3oke, Deliverance 

•awford, Dorothy 

)oke, Elizabeth 

ible, Samuel 

)oke, John,d. 1715 

rane, Elijah 

■ane, Elizabeth (Wakeley) 

jrtis, Jonah 

)le, Caleb 

)le, Rebecca 

)mstock. Daniel 1716 

)oke, Samuel, Jr 

>mstock, Sarah, bap. 1718 

>mstock, Danielj Jr. 

>mstock, Elizabeth 

>mstock, Mary 

imp, Dea. Abraham 

ible, Jerusha 



R.C 
L, 
F.C, 
F.C, 
R.C 



R.C. 



R.C. 
R.C. 



;go, James 

ckinson, Daniel 

bble, Dea. John 

sForest, Capt. and Dea. William. 



R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 



1712. 
Sept. 27, 1713. 
July —,1715. 
Dec. 16, 1716. 
Apl. 20, 1718. 
Mch 24, 1717. 

Aug. 8,1731. 

1731- 
July 29, 1733. 
July 29,1733- 

1732. 
Aug. 8. 1731. 
Aug. 8, 1731. 
May 5, 1734. 
Sept. 22, 1734. 
Dec. 29, 1734. 
Dec. 29, 1734. 
Dec. 29, 1734. 
Feb. 18, 1736. 
before 1779. 
before 1806. 



F.C. June23, 1717. 
R.C. Aug. 8, 1731. 

before 1771. 

R.C. before 1806, ) 
F.C. Dec. — , 1806, i 



Removed. 



Remarks. 



d. after 1750 
d. 1784, a. 53 



^1771 
a. after 1770 
d. after 1754 



d. 1769, a. 58 

d. after 1770 
D. Mch. 20, 1804 
d. Mch. 17, 1828 

d. 1838 

D. Jan. 24, 1830 

d. 1812, oe. 78 

d. 1821, a. 60 

d. 1825, iB. 65 

d. 1842, ee, 76 
d. 1S29, <E. 63 

d. 1817, (B. 57 
D. Jan. 24, 1830 



D. Jan. 24, 1830 

d. 17 14, . 48 

d. 1697 
d. after 1732 

d. after 1718 

d. afYer 1731 

d. after 1742 

d. after 1719 

d. 1747, CB. 60 or 

d. 1721 iE. 33, 



d. May 16, 1732 
d. after 1734 

d. 1813 
d. after 1734 

d. after 1734 
d. after 1735 



d. after 1735 
d. iSio, is. 64 



D. Jan. 24, 1830 
d. cB. about 80. 



dau. of Isaac. 
dan. of John. 
dan. of John. 



«/. of Joseph. 



wife of John; m. 



dau. of Isaac ; 



750. 

\_m. 1749. 
w. of John ; 



s. of Maj. John Burr; tn. 
1774, Mrs. Charity (Wells) 
Strong. 



tn. 1788, Alicia Windeatt. 



m. Huldah Burroughs. 

■wid. of Edw. who d. 1776, 
IV. of James Eaton, \(b. 42 
w. of Samuel. 



s. of Joseph. 
w. of Thomas 



w. of Elijah. 



w. of Rev. Charles. 



zt/. of William; nt. 1711. 
7n. 1721, Martha Wakeman, 

dau. of Capt. John. 
in. \T22^ Hannah U'heeler. 

61 " ' ' [1708. 

TV. of Samuel; m. Nov. 30, 
sister of Rev. Samuel. 
IV. of Quintin. 

m. 1731, Anne Wheeler. 
s. of Rev. Samuel. 

w. of Elijah; in. 1732. 



w. of Caleb. 



nt. 1733, Abigail Moss; 
^. ofDan^-' "*— '^ 



of 
[Rev. iara'l. 



•w, of Daniel, Jr. 
w. of Daniel. 



w. of Samuel. 



—1 66— 



Name. 



Dudley, Hannah 

Dudley. Azel ._ 

DeForest, Sally 



Edwards, Capt. John, Sr. . 

Edwards, Mary , 

Edwards, Joseph 

Edwards, Thomas 

Edwards, John, Jr , 



Admitted. 



before 1806. 

R.C. before 1806. 
1807. 



before 1731. 
before 1731. 

1731- 

1731- 

1733- 



Fairchild, Alexander 

French, Abigail 

French, Samuel 

Fairchild, Hannah 

Ferris, Zachariah, Sr 

Fairchild, Deborah, bap, 1706 

Ferris, Zachariah, Jr _ _ 

Ferris, Mary 

Ferris, Martha 

Fayerweather, Benjamin 1704 

Frost, Joseph 

Frost, Abner _ 

Fairchild, Caleb 

French, Sergt. Samuel 1704 

French, _ 

Fairchild, Mary (Mallory) 

Fayerweather, Joseph, <^rt/. 1707 ... 
Fayerweather, Sarah (Sherwood) .. 

Fairchild, James 

Fairchild, 

Fayerweather, Widow 

French, 

Fayerweather, John, bap. 1704 

Fayerweather, Anne 

Fayerweather, Abigail 

French, Samuel, Jr 

Fayerweather, Lt. Benj., bap. 1717. 
Fayerweather, John, bap. 1736 

Fayerweather, Daniel 1795 

Fayerweather, Betsey 

Freeman, Primus "j 
Freeman, Chloe 



R.C 

R.C, 

F.C. 

L, 

L, 

F^C" 
R.C 
R.C, 
F.C, 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C, 
R.C. 



Freeman, Thomas j" 



Colored .. 



Freeman, Chloe 



R.C 



F.C, 



Feb. 8, 1697. 
Feb. 8, 1697. 
Mch. 8, 1697. 
Sept. 10, i6gg, 
Sept. 19, 1705. 

1706? 
May 23, 1708. 
Apr. 17, 1709. 
Oct. 21, 1711. 
April 5, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Nov. 2, 1712. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
Dec. 5, 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 

1732. 
Dec. 30.1733- 
Mch. 10, 1734. 
April 8, 1736. 



fr. Stratford 



R.C. 

F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 



Gregory, Sergt. Samuel, Sr 

Gregory, Rebecca 

Gregory, Abigail 

Gruman, Samuel 

Gregory, Joanna 

Gregor y , Mary 

Gregory, Esther 

Gregory, Thaddeus, bap. 1701 

Gregory, Hulda 

Gregory, Abigail (Wakeley) 

Gregory, Sergt. Ebenezer , 

Gregory, Benjamin __ 

Gregory, Ensign ? Samuel 1734 

Gregory, Naomi, bap. 1733 , 

Gregory, Ezra 



L. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 



Gregory, Sarah 

Gouge, Thomas 1792 

Gouge, Ruth 

Gregory, James 

Gregory, Philena 1792 



Hubbell, Scrg't Richard, Sr Junei3,i69s, fr. Stratford 

Hubbell, Lieut. Richard, Jr June:3,i695, fr. Stratford 



F.C, 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C 
F.C 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C 



before 1806. I 

i8og. I 

1806. 

before 1806. 

before 1806. 

before 1806. 

before 1806. 

June 13, 1695, fr. Faiifield 

July 10, 1695, fr. Fairfield 

Feb. 8, 1697. 

Nov. 2, 1712. 

Dec. 7, 1712. 

July 13. 1718. 

before 1731. 

before 1731. 

before 1731. 

before 1731. 

1734. 

Sept. 22, 1734. 

Dec. 17, 1749 

Dec. 17,1749. 



before i8c6. ) 
Jan. 1, 1815. f 
before 1806. \ 

Jan. 3, iSoS. f 

before 1806. I 

Mch. 4, 1827. J 

. before 1806. f 

1815. f ■— 
before 1806. I 

1807. f ■ — 
Mch. I, 1807. ( 

1807. i •"• 



d. after 1717 

d. Dec. 23, 1732 

d. after 1734 

d. Sept. 3, 1732 
d. 1743, <e. 67 
d. after 1734 



Removed. 



D, Jan. 24, 1830 
d. 1744, <s. 82 

d. 1749, CE. 82 

d. after 1736 
d. after 1736 
d. after 1735 

d. after 1732 

d. after 1709 

D. Nov. 18, 1716 

d. after 1709 

d. 1725, a. 55 



w. of Azel. 

IV. of William. 



Remarks. 



•w. of John, Sr, 

m. 1731, Prudence Wakele 



m. 1721, Mary Mallory. 
dati. of Samuel Sherman; 1 
[of Samuc 

To New"M"iifoVd.* 

dait. of Alexander. 



w. of Samuel. [Sherwooi 
\m. 1693, Sarah, dau.oi Mai 
I [Francis Ha 

jwi. 1723, Rebecca» dau. 



d. after 1732 
d. after 1762 ? 
d. 1773, ee. 61 

^- 1773 
d. 1791, <^. 74 
d. after 1762 ? 

d. 1849 

d. 1858 

d. after 1815 



d. after 1717 



d, 1790, <r. 83 
d. 1777 

d. after 1733 
d. Mch. 8, 1750 

d, 1766 

d. after 1835 ? 
d. 1816, ie. 58 

d. 1848 
d. 1826, tg. 56 



d. 1699 
d. after 1731 



! " •-;;- 

w. of Samuel. 
tv. of Alexander, 
.r. of Benjamin. 
w. of Benjamin. 

w. of James. 

w, of Samuel, Jr. 
s. of Benjamin. 
TV. of John. 
nrid. of ? 

I. 1742, Elizabeth Beach, 
of John. 



w. of Daniel. 
'. of Primus, 
w. of Thomas. 



[Beardsle 
w.of Benjamin; dau.oijn 



IV. of Sergt. Samuel. 
IV. of Enoch. 
s. of Samuel, Jr. 
IV. of Thaddeus. 
iv. of Ensign Samuel. 
s. of Samuel, Sr. 

dau. of Ebenezer. 



w, of Ezra. 



w. of Thomas. 



w, of James. 

Freeman Fairfield, i66g. 



— 167 — 



Name. 



Admitted. 



Removed. 



Remarks. 



F.C. 
L. 

L. 
R.C. 

L. 
K.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 

R.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 



ill, Susannah 

Libbell, Abigail 

libbell. Temperance 

Libbell, Sarah 

iwley, Dea. Thomas I 

ill, Jane _ 

>lUnsworth, Ruth 

abbell, Peter 

jbbell, Katharine 

abbell, Ebenezer 1705 

ibbeli, Zachariah, b. 1694 

Ul, David 

ibbell, Lt. Ephraim 

ibbell, Jonathan 

ibbell, John 

ibbell, Anne (Wells) 

ibbell. Elizabeth 

ill, Samuel 1700 

ibbell, Samuel, Sr 

ibbell, Capt, Daniel 

iwley, Gideon.. 

iwley, Anna (Bennett) 

ibbell, Dea. Richard, Jr. ... 

ibbell, Stephen 

ibbell, Hannah, bap. i6q8 . 

ill. John 

ill, Abigail, bap. 1700? 

ill, Mary 

ill, Martha 

ill, Margaret (Stiles) 

ill, Samuel 

ill, Hannah 

ill. Sergt. Francis, Sr 

ibbell, Hannah 

jbbell, Anna 

ill, Mother of Samuel 

jbbell, Esther (Beach) 

ill, P'rancis, Jr., bap. 1705 

adgdon, Mrs 

ibbell, Seret. James 1703 

ibbell. Widow 

ill. Widow Sarah 

ibbell, Capt. David, bap. 1698... 

ill, Mary, bap. 1700 

iwley, Ebenezer, bap. 1703 

ill, Richard, bap. 1713 

ill, Hannah (Booth). 

jbbell, Penelope. 

jbbell, Andrew, ^i/. 1706 

Linn, Nathaniel 1 

ill, Elnathan, bap. xtix R.C. 

ill. Abigail, bap. 1700 |R.C. 

Libbell, Abigail, bap. 1709 JF.C. 

iwley, Sergt. James, bap. 1713 ,..|R.C, 

iwley, Eunice (Jackson) !r.C. 

ill, Abigail F.C. 

Lird, Nathan, bap. 1706 F.C. 

iird, F.C. 

ubbell, Mary, bap. 1709 R.C, 

ill, Hannah (Hawley) F.C. 

ill. Martha, (5«/. 1717 F.C, 

iwlev. Zachariah, bap. 1717 R.C, 

ill. Widow Anne F.C. 

Jbbell, Keziah F.C, 

iwley, Capt. Ezra, bap. 1711 F.C. 

■iwley, Abigail F.C, 

ill. Rev. Lyman _ Ord. 

ubbell, Abel R.C, 

ubbell, Martha R.C, 

odgdon, Mary L, 

ubbell, Daniel R.C. 



F.C. 



R.C, 
F.C. 
R.C. 

R.C. 

R.C. 
F.C. 



Jan. 5.1695- 
July 10, 1695, fr. 
July 10, 1695, fr. 
Feb. 8, 1697. 

1699, 
April 7, 1700. 
Apl. 15, 1711. 
Apl. 13, 1712. 
Apl. 13, 171Z, 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. \ 
April 8. 1736. ( 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1713. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Nov. 2, 1712. 
Nov. 16, 1712. 

N0V.23, 1712, 
Jan. 18, 1713. 
Jan. 18, 1713. 
Feb. 7, 1714. I 
Feb. 27, 1732. ( 
Feb. 7. 1714. 
Feb. 7, 1714. 
Feb. 17, 17:7. 
Feb. 17, 1717. 
Mch. 3, 1717, 
May 5, 1717. 
Oct. 6, 1717. 
Oct. 6,1717. 
Oct. 6, 1717. 

1717. 

Jan. 12, 1718. 

July 13, 1718. 

before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
Aug. 8,1731. 
Aug. 8, 1731. 
Aug. 8. 1731. 

Feb. 27, 1732. 

Feb. 27, 1732. 

Feb. 27, 1732. 

before 1732. 

Mch. 8, 1733. 

Sept. 23, 1733. 

April 7,1734. 

Apl. 14, 1734- 

Apl. 28, 1734. 
, Apl. 28, 1734. 

Sept. 29, 1734. 

Apl. 20, 1735. 

Apl. 20, 1735. 
, Jan. 25, 1736. 

Feb. 18, 1736. 

Feb. 18, 1736. 

June 13, 1736. 

April 8, 1736. 

July II, 1736. 

Oct. 17, 1736. 

Oct. 17, 1736. 

Sept.27, 1749. 

Nov. 5, 1749. 

Nov. 5, 1749. 

Sept. 21, 1750. 

Sept. 23, 1750. 



Stratford 
Stratford 



fr. Stratford 



w. of Richard, Sr. 
IV. of Richard, Jr. 



d. after 1715 
d. 1722, (E. 44 

d. after 1720 

d. after 1755 

d. 1774, ee. 85 

d. after 1733 nt. Nathan Beardsley 

d. after 1731 »/. Sarah SilIiman;.r.of Isaac, 
rf. Sept. iS, 1713, m. E. Wilson, 1687; m. T. 

iE. 57. I Preston, 1688. 

^. after 1731 \ni. 1716, Esther Beach. 

d. 1730, a. 43 I _ 

d. 1727, (B. 36 ,«/. of Gideon; nt. 1711. 

d. 1787, ^. 91 



a/, of Peter; m. 1710. 
s, of Ebenezer. 

s. of Richard, Jr. 

[Bradley. 
m, Oct. 17, 1717, Abigail 
m. 1713, Peacable Silliroan. 



d. 1792, ee. 98 
d. 1749, <B. 71 



d. after 1731 
d. after 1734 



1750. 1774. [Squire, 1721. 
s. of Samuel ; nt. Abigail 
dau. of Richard. 
s. of Isaac, Sr. 
w. of John. 
IV. of Jonathan. 

•lu. of Francis, Sr. 



•k;. of Samuel. 
d. after 1733 w. Dec. 8, \^o■?.^ MaryStilea. 
IV. of Lieut. Richard. 
IV. of John. 



d. after 1731 
d. after 1731 

d. Feb. 26, 1735 



d. 1770 
<i' 1735 



d, after 1750 ? I 
may be 1773 ( 

d. 1775 
d. 1791, ce. 87 
d. after 1734 

d. after 1749 
d. 1746, (e. 26 

d. 1746, (T. 34 

d. 1796, a. %z 
d. after 1736 



d. 1 74 1, iS". 26 
d. 1747, ^. 31 

d. 177s 

d. 1778 ? 

d. 1778 

d. 1773, (T. 6z 

d. 1786, cp. 71 

D. June 18, 1751 

d. 1832, cE. 103 

d. 1799 

d. 1801, ee. 77 



w. of Daniel. 



s. of Samuel, Sr. 
dau. of Isaac, Sr. ? 
s. of Thomas. 

J. of Francis, Sr. 

w. of Richard ; nt. 1731. 
w. of Richard, Jr. 
s. of James. 

s. of John. 

dau. of John. [Richard, 

w. of Zach.; dau. of Sergt. 
s. of Gideon. 
nu. of James; nt. 1733. 
w. of Burgess, bap. 1701, s. 
[of Isaac, 
w. of Nathan. 
dau. of Capt. Richard? 
w. of Elnathan ; nt. 1732. 
dati. of Samuel. 
s. of Gideon. 

m, 1736, Zachariah Sanford. 
w. of Joseph. 
s. of Thomas. 
w. of Ezra; m. 1735. 
d. 1790. 

w. of Abel. 
w. of Timothy. 



— 1 68- 



Name. 



Admitted. 



Removed. 



Remarks. 



Hubbell, Sarah (Gregory) 

Hodgdon, David 

Hodgiion. Sarah (Lacey) 

Hnbbell, Jabez 

Hubbell, Mary 

Holberton, John 

Hubbell, Richard, Jr., b. 1742 .. 

Hubbell, Ensign Hezekiah 

Hawley. Dea. Elijah 

Hubbell. Anne _. 

Hubbell. Ellen 

Hubbell, Anne 

Hawley, Ellen 

Hubbell. Mary (Middlebrook) . 

Hull, Irena 

Hawley, Samuel. Jr 

Hawley, Lucy 



R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 



Hawley, Capt. Abijah 

Hawley. Polly 1802 

Hawley, Capt. David 1781 

Hawley, Aaron, Jr 1798 

Hawley, Griswold, 

Hawley, Capt. Wilson 1803 

Hawley, Charity 

Hawley, Gurdon 1804 

Hawley, Anne 



Hawley. Ruth (Morehouse) , 

Hawley, Capt. Ebenezer ' 

Hawley, Zalmon 1791, 

Hawley. Anne ' 

H u b bel 1 , Sal mon 1 790 

Hubbell, Sarah 

Hubbell, Capt. Ezekiel ,- 1799 

Hubbell, Catharine 

Hubbell, Aaron 

Hubbell, Sally 

Hubbell. David 1802 

Hubbell, Anne 

Hull. Stephen 

Hull, Abi-ail 

Hubbell, Miriam 



R.C. 
F.C 
R.C, 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C, 
R.C. 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C 
RC 
R.C 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 



Jackson, Elizabeth 

J ackson , M ary 

Jackson, Joseph 

Jackson, Hannah, bap. 1701 

Jackson. Henry, ^^i/. 1701 

Jackso n . M ary 

Jackson, Robert 

Judson, Joseph 

Judson, Hannah 

Jackson, Mary 

Jackson, Sarah 

Joacocks, Thomas 

JoacocUs, Abigail 1706 

Jackson, 

Jackson, Corp. John 

Jackson, David, Sr 

Jackson, Gabriel, ^(j/. 1709 

Jackson, Moses 1708 

Jones, Rebecca .- 

Jackson, Samuel 

Jackson, Penninah 

Jackson, Moses^ Sr., bap. i6g8 



Sept. 23, 1750, 
Feb. 3, 1751 
Feb. 3, 1751 
Mch.17, 1751 
Mch.17, 1751, 

before 1763 
before 1773, 
before 1776 
before 1806 
before 1806 
before 1806. 
before 1806, 
before 1806, 
before 1S06, 
before 1806, 
before 1806 

1807. 

before 1806, 

Feb. 4, i8i( 

before 1S06, 

Feb. 4, i8i( 

before 1806, 

before 1806 

Jan, 18, i8i< 

before 1806 

Jan. 18, i8i( 

before 1806. 

Feb. 24. 1810. 

before 1806 

Feb. 24. r8ii 

before 1806. 

before 1806. 

July 5. i8i; 

before 1806 

Aug. 2, 181: 

before 1806, 

betore 1806 

before 1806 

before 1806, 

before 1S06, 

before 1806 

, before 1806 

, before 1806 

before 1806, 

, before 1806, 

, before 1806, 

, before 1806, 

, Mch. 5, 1808 

. before 1806. 

May 3, 1807 



resigned 1790 



fr. Greenfield 



\.\ 



R.C. 
L. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
FC. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C 
F.C. 
F.C. 



F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 



Feb. 8, 1697 

Dec. 20, 1697, fr. Norwalk 
Oct. 2o, 1700. ._.. 

Sept. 3. 1704 

Apl. 25, 1708 

Apl. 25, 170S. 

July 20, 1707. 

April 3, 1709. 

April 3,1709 

Aug.2o, 1710. 

Oct. 17, 1714. .... 

Mch. 31, 1717. 

Mch. 31, 1717. 

before 1731. 

before 1731. 

before 1731. 

before 1732. 

before 1733. 

Nov. 17, 1734. 

Jan. 21, 1750. 

Jan. 21, 1750. 



d. 1801, (E. 73 
d. 1795 

d, 1770 

d. after 1770 

d. June 21, 1750 

d. 1829, tr. 87 

d. 1784, tE. 56 

d. 1825, a:. 81 



d. 1818, iE. 86 
d. 1823, ee. 84 
d. 1813, ^. 92 

d. 1826, ^. 66 



d. 1S18, <E. 50 

D. Jan. 24, 1830 
d. 1807 

D. Jan. 24, 1830 

D. Jan. 24, 1830 

D. Jan. 24, 1830 

d. 1855 

d. 1855 

d. 1829, <E. 75 

d. 1822, a:. 58 

d. 1810, tp. 70 
d. after 1821 
d. 1S27, <E. 69 

d. 1834 

d. 1850 
d, 1848, lE, 87 
d. 1S51, tF. 84 
d. after 1S19 

d. after 1814 



d. after 1712 

d. Dec. 17, 1717 
d. after 1731 
d, after 1718 



vj. of Daniel ; m. 1749. 

[w. 1750. 
dau. of John ; w, of David ; 

s. of Stephen. [1750. 

IV, of Jabez; m. June 28, 



s. of Dea. Richard, Jr. 

in. 1770, Mary Bennett, d. 

tvid. of , [1841, a. 90. 

IV id. of . 

•wid. of . 

ivid. of Wolcot. 
luid. of Benjamin. 
iv. of William B. 



w. of Samuel. 



w. of Abijah. 



■w. of Aaron. 



•w. of Gurdon. 
wid, of Ezra. 



w. of Zalmon. 
w. of Salmon. 
w, of Ezekiel. 
w. of Aaron. 
w. of David. 



w. of Stephen. 
V}id. of . 



m. 1709, John Sturdevant. 

dau. of Samuel ; vt. 1709. 
s, of Samuel. 
IV. of Henry; m. 1704. 
m. 1706, Sarah Huttun. 



d. Aug. 7, 1734 '-ry. of Daniel. 
tv. of John. 



(f. Jan. 3. 1734 
d. after 1735 

d. after 1736 
d. 1734 

d. after 1756 

d. after 2699 



w. of Thomas. 
w. of Moses, Jr. 



s. of Samuel. 
iu. of John. 
w, of Samuel. 



-169 — 



Name. 



app, Nathaniel 

app, 

app. Capt. Joseph . 
ilogg. Bela 



Admitted. 



R.C. Feb. 8, 1697. 

before 1731. 

before 1806. 

before 1814. 



;ey, Abigail F.C. Jan. t, 1710. 

;ey, Edward ..1703 F.C. Nov. 16, 1712. 

:ey, Elizabeth R.C. Oct. 26. 1712. 

:ey, John ..1702 R.C. Nov. 2, 1712. 

r, John-. .R.C.Aug. 8,1731. 

vrence j before 1731. 

:ey, Mother of Edward ' 

:ey, ' before 1731. 

:le, Doct. William I 



;kwood, Lambert j i79S' 

:ey, Capt. Josiah 1774 i7g8. 

:ey, Mary — before 1806. 

:kvvood, Elizabeth I before i8o5. 

;ey, Anne . before 1806. 

vis, Ichabod R.C. before 1806. 

vis, before 1806. 

;ey, Capt. Daniel before 1806. 

?ejoy, Capt. Phinehas , before 1807. 



llett, John.Sr 

rehouse, Jonathan 

rehouse, Noah 

rehouse, Martha 

rehouse, Samuel, Jr 1697 

rehouse, Hannah, bap, 1702 > 

rehouse, Daniel 

rehouse, Rebecca (Hall) 

es, Mrs. Elizabeth 

nn.John 

ad, Zachariah 

ad. 



Jdlebrook, John 

Jdlebrook 

Uet, David, 3«/. 1705 

cHard Matthew 

cHard, Sarah (Fayerweather)... 

rehouse, Katharine 

llett. John, Jr. 

Tehouse, Keziah, bap. 1710 

Tehouse, Sarah, bap. 1717 .. 

rehouse. Jemima 

trriss, Daniel 

Uet, Lewis... 

llett, Anne --1795 

^rehouse, Abijah 

Tehouse, Rachel 



eker, Anne . 



R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 



R.C 
R.C 
R.C, 
R.C 



R.C 
R.C, 
R.C 
F.C. 




R.C, 
R.C, 
F.C. 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C, 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C 



Apr. 29, 1705. 
Mch.14, 1708. 
May 7, 1710. 
May 7, 1710. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Nov. 23, 1716. 
Dec. 14, 1712. 
July 13,1718. 

before 1732. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
Mch. 5, 1732. 
Dec. 2, 1733. 
Dec. 2, 1733. 
Dec. 30, 1733. 
before 1733. 
Dec. 18, 1734. 
April 4, 1736. 
April 4, 1736. 
Feb. 25, 1749. 

1800. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. | 
May 1, 1808. ( 
before 1806. \ 
Sept. 5, 1813. f 
before 1806. ) 
Jan. 1, 1S15. J 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 



;hols, Rebecca... |F. C.Jan. 31,1714. 

:hols, Sarah R.C. Feb. 7. 1714. 

:hols, John 1798. 



ell, Sergt. John, Jr 

ell, Mary 

ell, Sarah 

ell, Capt. Samuel, Sr.... 

ell, Hannah.. 

ell, John, Sr 

ell, Mary Jr. (sic) 

ell, Anne 

ell, Deborah 



June 13, 1695, fr. 

L. July 10, 1695, fr. 

L. July 10, 1695, fr. 
R.C. Feb. 8. 1697, fr. 
R.C. Feb. 8, 1697, 
F.C:. Feb. 20, 1698, 
F.C. May 29, 1698. 
F.C. Nov. 2, 1712, 
R.C. Dec. 7, 1712 



Removed. 



d. after 1710 
d. 1814, ^. 83 

rf. after 1732 
d. afier 1723 



d. after 1731 

d. after 1750 

d. 1781 



d. 1825, CB. 68 
d. 1812, <s. 66 

d, 1810, (E. 91 

D. Nov. 5, 1826. 
d. 1812, ai. 45 



d. 1828, <E. 85 



d. 1764, <E. lOI 

d. after 1731 
d. Feb. 13, 1750 

d. Not. 25^ 1732 



D. i7i6or '26 
d. after 1751 
d. after 1753 
d, after 1734 



d. after 1735 
d. 1736, (S. 28 



d. after 1735 



d. after 1772 

d. 1825, iE. 69 

D. Jan. 24, 1830 

d. 1819, <£. 40 

d. 1817, a. 34 

d. 1861, (E. 96 

d. 1828, a. 73 
d. i8i3, es. 48 



m. May 28, 1712. 

IV. of Daniel. 



w. of Edward, Jr. 



'w. of Zachariah. 



Fairfield 
Fairfield 
Fairfield: 
Fairfield 



d. after 1816 

d. i743»^- 77 
(/. after 1731 
d. 1743, <s. 72 
d. after 1714 

d. after 1709 
d. after 1731 



Remarks. 



:'. of Edward. 

:. Ruth (Winton), luid. of 

Joseph Brinsmade; she d, 

1784, <e. 53. 



nvid. of John. 
■w, of Lambert. 
•w. of Josiah. 



•w. of Ichabod. 



in, 1708. 

vj. of Nathan. 

[Henry Lacey. 
dau. of Samuel ; in. 1716, 



w. of Jonathan. 
To New Haven. 
nt. 1716, Rebecca Nichols. 

w. of Zachariah. 



•w. of John. 
s. of John, Sr. 



w. of Matthew ; nt. 1732. 



dau. of Noah. 

dau. of Noah. 

dau. of Noah. [John. 

m. Sarah Summers, dau. of 



•w. of Lew^is. 



w. of Abijah. 
wid. of 



w. of David. 

•w. of Drew. 

ivid. of Benjamin ; m. 1716, 
[John Mason. 
Baptist. 



yw. of John, Sr. 
\w. of John, Jr. 



dau. of John, Sr. 
Freeman of Fairfield, 1669. 
•m. of John, Jr. ? 
nt, Beriah Bacon, 1713. 
;«. John Downs, 1713. 



— 170- 



Name. 



Admitted. 



Removed. 



Odell, Lt. Hezekiah, hap. 1700 F.C. Apl. 18, 1725. 

Odell, Deborah F.C. Apl. 18, 1725. 

Odell, Samuel, bap. 1705 R.C.Jan. 11,1736. 



Odell, William, h. 1697 

Odell, Gershom 

Odell, Anne 

Odell, Azariah 

Odell, Marv (Brinsmade) 

Odell, Beulah 



Preston, Edward 

Porter. Nathaniel 

Parrott, John. 

Parrott, Hannah 

Packer, John 

Patchin, Margaret 

Phippeny, Benjamin 

Porter, John, bap. \^oc:> _, 

Penny, Samuel 

Penny, Jemima 

Parish, Huldah 

Parrot, Abraham, Jr p'^' 

r'.c'. 

F.C. 

R.C. 

R.C. 



F.C. Apl. 8, 1736. 
R.C. Nov. 28, 1736. 
R.C. Nov. 28, 1736. 
R.C. Apl. 10, 1750-1. 
R.C. Apl. 10, 1750-1. 
F.C. July I. 1750. 



F.C, Mch. 27, i6g6. 

R.C. " ■ - - 

R.C. 

R.C. 

R.C. 

R.C. 



Feb. 
Dec. 
Dec. 
A up. 
Oct. 



1697. 
8, 1706. 
8, 1706. 
8, 1731. 
24i 1731- 



R.C. 



Parrot, Lucy (Wells). 

Parrot, Abraham, Sr., 
Parrot, • 



• Esther?, 



Rowell, Valentine 

Rowell, Mary 

Rowland, Dea. and Sergt. Henry, 
bap. 17 12. 

Rossel, Mercy 

Rossel, Sarah 

Risden, Nathaniel 

Risden, 

Rowland, Mary 

Rowland, Edward 

Rowland, 

Ross, Rev. Robert 

Risley, William 

Risley, Lavinia 



Sherman, Matthew 

Sherman, Dea. and Capt. David. 



Sherwood, Mary 

Sherwood, Elizabeth . 



Sherman, Mercy 

Seeley, Joseph 

Seeley, Sarah 

Sherman, Hannah 

Sherwood, Matthew, Jr 

Summers, Serg't Samuel 

Summers, Abigail 

Smedley, Samuel, w. 1700 

Seeley, Rebecca 

Sherwood, Joanna 

Sherwood. Capt. Matthew 

Summers, Henry 

Seeley, Lieut. James 

Seeley, Sarah (Gregory) 

Smith, William, Sr 

Smedley, Abigail (Dimon) 

Sherwood, Capt. Samuel 

Sherwood Rebecca(Burr) 

Summers, Sarah (Beardslcy) 

Sherman, Wilmot 



before 1733. 
before 1733. 
before i£o6. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1S06. 
May 21, 1815. 
before i3o6. 
May 21, 1815. 
before 1806, 
before 1806. 



R.C. July 20, 1707. 
R.C. July 20, 1707. 
.. about 1723. 



R.C, 

R.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 

L. 
R.C, 
R.C. 

L. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 



Aug. 8, 1731. 

Aug. 8, 1731. 

Apl. 8, 1736. 

Apl. 8, 1736. 

Feb. 25, 1750. 

Dec. 10, i74g. 

Dec. 10, 1749. 

Nov. 28, 1753, resigned 1796 

before 1807. 

before 1807 

Jan. 5 



807. j. 

.1817. r 



. June 13, 1695, 
. June 13, 1695, 

. July 10, 1695, 
. July 10, 1695, 



d. after 1752 
d. 1756, <E, 55 
d. 175s, ce. 6g 

d. 177Z, €e, 75 
d. after 1756 

d. after 1759 
d. after 1754 
d. 1756, f^. 27 



d. after 1719 
d. after 1716 



d. after 1736 



Remarks. 



J. of John ; m. Deborah. 

w. of Hezekiah. 

"*. 1732, Judith Ann Whee 

er, w. Johannah Peck. 
X. of John ; m. 1718, Abiga 
s. of Hezekiah. [Smit 



w. of Azariah; w. 1749. 
dan. Hezekiah and Debon 



IV. of John. 

7f. of Samuel. 

m. Hannah ; s. of Nathani 



of Samuel. 

w. of Joel. 

d. 1825. (?. 42 

or48? 

d. 1856, (£. 80 w. of Abraham, Jr. 

d, 1817, «?. 64 
d. Sept. 1852 ? iv, of Abraham, Sr. 

d. after 1709 

d. June 14, 1775 



iv. of Valentine. 
J. of Henry ; w/. TamarShe 
man, 1718, daii. of Davi 



fr. Stratford 
fr. Stratford' 



fr. Fairfield 
fr. Fairfield 



d. Aug. 29, 1799 
d. after 1810 

d. Jan. 1857 

d. after 1713 
d, Jan. 1, 1753 

<E. 88. 
d, 1730, a\ 87 



IV. of Nathaniel. 
IV. of Henry. 

IV. of Edward. 
<z. 75. 

IV. of William. 



L. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 

R.C. 
F.C. 
L. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 



July to, 1695, 
Dec. 8, 1695. 

8, 1695. 

5, 1696. 

S, 1697. 

8, 1697. 

8, 1697. 

8, 1697. 



fr. Stratford 



Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Feb. 
Feb. 
Feb. 



F.C. 
R.C. 

R.C. 

F.C. 
R.C, 



Feb. 8, 1697. 
Sept. 21, 1696. 

1697, 
Aug. 29, 1703. 
Apl. 2, 1704. 
Apl. 3, 1704. 

1704. 
Apl. 22, 1705. 

Nov, 4, 1705. 

Nov. 4, 1705. 

May 4, 1707. 
Apl. 3, 1709. 



fr. Fairfield 



d. after 1731 
d. after 1735 



d, after 1706 
d. after 1723 
d. after 1731 
d. after 1734 



d. 1715, (T. 72 

d. after 1731 

d. af. 1761, «■. 93 



d. about 1718 
d. Nov. 10, 1732 

(z. 52. 
d. May 16, 1721 

(F. 40. 

d. after 1731 



nt. 17 10. 

s. of Samuel, Jr.; m. Ma: 

Judson. 
IV. of Capt. Matthew. 
m. 1710, Rev. Chas. Chau 

cey, and 1716, Lt. Richa 

Miles. 
IV, of David, Sr. 

w. of Joseph. 



before 1732. 

•w. of Samuel. 

m. 1731, Martha Treadwe 

bap. 1702, d. 1734? 
w. of John. 

Freeman of Fairfield, 1661 
m. Sarah, dau, of John 
[Beardsle 
IV. of James; ttt. 1702. 

nt. \-]r>Q. 

m. 1704, Rebecca Burr. 

w. of Samuel ; m. 1704. 

dau. of John Beardsley ; ', 
[of Henry Summei 



-171- 



Name. 



Admitted. 



erwood. Dr. ? Thomas R.C. Nov. 6, 1709. 

mmers, John R.C. May 11, 1712. 

erman. Capt. David, Jr 1712. 

erwood, Dea. Lemuel R.C. July 6,1712. 

erwood, Experience (Wheeler).. .R.C. July 6, 1712. 

erwood, |F.C. Aug. 31, 1712. 

eley, Ebenezer R.C Oct. 26, 1712. 

erman, Sarah _ R.C. Oct. 26, 1712. 

erman. Jerusha R.C. Oct. 26, 1712. 

mmers, Abigail, bap, 1705 or 1703 R.C. Oct. 26, 1712. 

ermiin, Tamar jR.C. Oct. 26, 1712. 

liman, Peacable ^R.C. Oct. 26, 1712. 

erman, Abiah R.C. Feb. 7, 1714. 

erman, Sarah _ R.C. Nov. 21, 1714. 

eley, Jerusha _ F.C. Mch. 10, 1717. 

uir'e, Abifjail F.C. June 3. 1716. 

erman. Jabez F.C.Jan. 14, 1729. 

erman. F.C. Jan. 14, 1729. 

mmers, Samuel, Jr., bap. i7oo.__ F.C.Jan. 14,1729. 

mmers, F.C. Jan. 14, 1729. 

erman. Dinah (Rice) I before 1731. 

erwood, Mary ' before 1731. 

mmers, Mary? ! before 1731. 

liman, Ann I 

liman, Nathaniel 1724 before 1731. 

liman, Hannah .: before 1731. 

;rlinK. Jacob _' before 1731. 

liman, Hannah (Odell) before 1731. 

erwood, Capt. John, bap. 1705,..! 1731 

erman, Enos j before 1731, 

erman. Prudence, bap. 1706 R.C. Aug. 8, 1731. 

i 

erwood, Sarah, bap. 1709 R.C. Aug. 8, 1731. 

mmers, David, bap. 1702 R.C. Aug. 8, 1731. 

mmers, Martha R.C. Aug. S, 1731, 

eley, Hannah ; Nov. 7, 1731. 

ndtord. Widow _ 1732. 

eley, Elizabeth I Apl. 16, 1732. 

mmers, Nathan, bap. 1703 R.C. Aug. 8, 1731. 

erwood, Dea. Nathaniel, ^rt/.i707iR.C. May 28, 1732. 



erwood, Mary 

ndford, Thomas, Jr. ? 

ndford, Hannah? 

nford, Ezekiel 1706 

inley, James , 

mley, , 

erman, Martha 

.erwood, Mercy (Sherman) 



R.C. Mch. II, 1733. 

Sept. 3, 1732. 

Sept. 3, 1732. 

R.C. June 2, 1734. 
F.C. Apl. 8, 1736. 
F.C. Apl. 8, 1736. 
R.C. May 16, 1736. 
R.C. jVug. 8, 1736- 



immers. Abiah R.C 

eer, Abigail... I'R.C, 

erman, Klnathan. bap. 1709? jR.C, 

erman. Eunice (Gregory) 'R.C. 



.erwood. Elizabeth 

nford, Zachariah, 

lliman, Daniel, 

eley, Lt. Nathan 

eley, Joanna 

eley, Dea. Abel 

Qith, Joseph 

eley. Dea. Seth, bap. 1733.-- 

lerman, Dea. Seth 

lerman, Dea. Silas 

urges, Lewis 

Qith, Justin 

rong. Prof. Nehemiah 

immers, Capt. Stephen, Sr.,. 

lerman, Mary 

ierwood, Eunice 

erling, Eunice (Summers)... 

:eley, .Mercy 

lerman, Charity 



F.C. 



R.C 
F.C 



May 16, 1736. 
Apl. 29, 1750. 
Feb. 3, 1751. 
Feb. 3, 1751. 
Sept. 2, 1750. 
before 1762 ? 
before 1762. 
before 1762. 

before 1776. 
before 1769. 
before 1782. 

before 1790. 
1797 
1800 

before 1805. 
. before 1806. ( 
, Dec. 1806. J 

before 1806. 

before 1806. 

before i8o6. 

before 1806. 

before 1806. 



d. after 1727 

d. after 1731 m. 1710, Mary - 
d. 1752, <^. 65 j [peny; m. A. Silliman. 

d. Sept. 2, 1732 \m. E. Wheeler; m, J. Phip- 
d. Aug. 27, 1721 1 w. of Deac. Lemuel. 

\7t'. of Thomas. 

d. 1717 \s. of Nathaniel. 
Iw. of Benaiah Strong. 



Removed. 



Remarks. 



^> 173S1 '?'. 42 

d. 1717, C£. 19 

d. after 1731 ? 
d. 1777, t?. 84 



d. 1732, ^. 37 
d. 1743, 1?. 61 

d. after 1731 
d. after 1735 

d. 1765, £B. 88 

d. 1756, es. 77 
d. 1779, «. 74 

d. after 1736 



dan. of Serg't Samuel. 

vt. Henry Rowland 1718. 

vt. Jonathan Hubbell, 1713. 

daii.oi Dea. David & Mercy 

IV. of John. 

w. of Ebenezer. 

m. Stephen Hubbell. 

s. of Matthew. 

\-w. of Jabez. 

^r. of Serg't Samuel. 

IV. of Samuel, Jr. 

IV. of Capt. David, Jr. 

2d iv. of Capl. Samuel. 

7f. of John. [1728. 

m. Dea. L. Sherwood, 3d w., 



IV. of Nathaniel. 

I [Seeley. 

\7v. of Jacob; zvid. of Nath'l 
m. M. Walker, 1733; s. of 
J Samuel. 



d. after 1732 
d. 1751 ? a;. 54 

d. after 1734 
d. 17B1, is. 79 
d. 1772, ee. 70 
d. 1784, ts. 78 

d. 1767, a. 58? 

d. 1757. '^. 63? 

^' i753»*y. 73 

d. 1774 



d. 1778,^. 75 

d. 1807, £B. 85 ? 

d. 1779 
d. 1793 

d. 1787 
d. 1773, te. 52 

d. 1777 
d. 1797, <f. 62 



dau. of Capt. David; m. R. 

Denison, 1733. 
(/rt«. of Samuel; m. D. Fitch, 
5. of Samuel. [i732« 

w. of Nathan. 
w. of Joseph, 
From Fairfield. 
iu. of Nathaniel. 
s. of Samuel. 
s. of Samuel; m. MercvSher- 

man, dau. of Dea. David. 
•w. of Capt. John ? 



IV. of Thomas, Jr. 

'«. 1733, Sarah TreadweU. 

w. of James, 
•a', of Peter, 
w. of Nathaniel of Stratford, 

dau. of Dea. David. 
w. of Jabez. 
w. of Ebenezer. 
s. of David Sherman, Jr. 
IV. o\ Elnathan ; m. 1750. 
■w. of Matthew. 
Householder 1732 ; m. 1736, 
m, Sarah. [Ann Hall. 



•w. of Dea. Seth. 



d. 1810, €s, 84 iw/.Mercy,w!lOff.i8i9,(y.98. 

d. 1817, is. 79 ? J. of Joseph. 

d. 1807, tr. S3 JDea. 1799 ; s. of Elnathan. 

d. 1805 Ij. of Elnathan. 

(/.after 1806 !w. Marv,<^rt«.of Josenhand 

d. after 1806 I [Anna (Knowles) Porter. 

d. 1807, ts. 80 Prof. Mathematics, Yale 

^.,8.,, ^.68 ,«.Mary— . [College. 

liu. of Dea. Silas. [Shermari. 

d. 1816, <?. 73 ;rf, of Nathaniel and Mercy 

d. 1808, a. 88 daa. of John ; -.aid. of 

d. 1819, a:. 98 |TO/</.ofDea.Abel. [Stephen. 

d. 1841 'w. of Ebenezer. 



-172 — 



Name. 



Admitted. 



Sherman, Rebecca (French) ] before 1 806. 

Summers. Betsey i before 1806. 

Sturges, Mary I before 1806. 

Smith, before 1806. 

before 1806. 

R.C. before 1806. 



Seelye, Miss Anna. 
Strong, Joseph 



Sherman. Silas ". S"S 



, before 1806, 



.806. I 
. 1808. f 



R.C. before 1806. » 
F.G. Mch. 5, 1808. f 



Sherman, Abbe 

Summers, Aaron 

Summers. Stephen, Jr R.C. before 1806. 

Sterling, David jR.C. before 1806. 

Sterling, Deborah. R.C. before 1806. 

F.C. Nov. 6, 180: 

Sterling, Sarah R.C. before 1806. 

sterling, Philip pr " M ''h'^ '^l' \ ■^^'i"'"'" 

*' *^ ir.O. Men. 7, i8ig. j 1822. 

ctprlino- Pnth IR.C. bcfore 1S06. I 

Sterlmg, Ruth .F.C. May 4, 1817. f 

Smith. Betsey JR.C. before 1806. 

Sherwood, Zachariah iR.C. before 1806. 

Sherwood, Anne R.C. before 1806. 

Summers, Mary Jan. 7, 1S07. 

Summers. Mary 

Sterling, Sherwood Oct. 7, 1821. 

Seeley, Ruth 

Seeley, Rhoda 

Treadwell, Ruth L. July 10, 1695, fr. Fairfield 



Treadwell, Edward 

Treadwell, 

Treadwell, John 

Treadwell, Samuel, Sr 

Treadwell, Samuel, Jr 

Treadwell, Martha 

Treadwell, Ephraim 

Treadwell, Abigail 

Treadwell, Timothy 



Treadwell. Sarah 

Treadwell, Deborah 

Trowbritlge, Joseph 

Trowbridge, Anne 

Trowbridge, Samuel, Sr i6gg 

Trowbridge. Sarah (Lacey) 

Treadwell, Lt. Hezekiah, iap. 1707 

Treadwell, Mehitable 

Treadwell, Zachariah 17CX) 

Treadwell, John, da/*. 1705 

Trowbridge. John. 6a/*. 1705 

Treadwell, Elizabeth, ^7/. 1702 

Treadwell, Samuel, dn/i. 1704 

Trowbridge, Samuel, Jr., /mp. 1700. 

Trowbridge, Sarah (Seeley) 

Treadwell, Jacob, da/: 1706 

Treadwell, 

Turney, Robert 

Turney, 

Trowbiidge, Anne, dap. 1713 

Trowbridge, Sarah, dap. 1716 

Treadwell, Henjamin, dap. 1700 

Turney, Jonah 

Turney, John 

Turney, Hannah (Porter) 

Treadwell, Hezekiah 

Treadwell. Robert 

Treadwell, Mary 



R.C. Dec. 23, 1695, 
R.C. Dec. 23, 1695, 
R.C. Feb. 8, 1697. 
F.G. Feb. 20, 1698, 
R.C. Apr. 23, 1698, 
R.C. Apr. 23,1698. 
R.C. Mch. 19, 1704. 

L. Nov. 24. 1704, fr. Woodbury 
R.C. Feb. 17, 170S 



R.C. 



Wheeler, Dea. Isaac, Sr.. 

Wheeler, .*\ime 

Wheeler, Mercv 



R.C 
R.C 
F.C, 
F.C, 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C, 
R.C 
R.C 
R.C 



R.C, 
R.C, 
R.C 
R.C, 
RC, 
R.C 



R.C, 
R.C. 



Feb. 17, 1705. 

1705- 
June s, 1709. 
June 5, 1709. 
July 21. 1710. 
Feb. 14, 1714. 
Feb. 27, 17'^z. 
Feb. 27, 1732. 
Aug. 8, 1731. 
Aug. 8,1731. 
Aug. 8, 1731. 
Aug. 8, 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
I'"eb. 27, 1732. 
Feb. 27, 1732. 
July 9, 1732. 
July 9,1732. 
Mch. II, 1733. 
Jan. 22, 1734. 

1733- 

»735- 
Mch.:6. :735, 
Mch. 16, 1735. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 



June 13, 1695. .. . 

L. July 10, 1695, fr. Fairfield 
L.July 10, 1695, fr. Fairfield 



Removed. 



d. 1825, rt*. 70 
d. 1825, ie. 47 

d. after 1830 

^. 1815, iE. 52 

d. 1816, cF. 75 
d. 1825, {T. 66 



d. 1806. (Z-. Si 

d. 18 10 
d. 1843, <^' 72 
d. 1849, £?. 74 



Remarks. 



w,ol Capt.David(lostatsea.) 

w. of Capt. Stephen, Jr. 

w. of Lewis. 

w. of Justin. 

d. of Dea. Seth and Joanna. 
, of Joseph and Charity 
Wells, OT. Comfort Nichols. 



TV. of Silas. 



[(Sherwood. 

of Abijah and Eunice 

dau. Joseph and Comfort 

(Nichols) Strong ; w. oi 

David. 

wzd. of . 



TV. of Philip. 
w. of Brace. 



d. 1811, ^. 65 w. of Zachariah. 
d. 1824, ts. 80 zu. of Stephen. 
d. 1811, a: 65 zt'id. of Samuel. 
D.Jan. 24, 1830. s. of David and Deborah. 
d. 1815, «•. 29 w. of Joseph. 
d. 1819, ^. 80 'wzd. of Seth. 



d. after 1734 
d. after 1731 
d. after 1712 
d. after 1705 
d. after 1713 

d. after 1708 

d. 1720, (?. 37 



d. after 1749 

d. 1 7 16 

d. after 1734 

d. after 1732 

d. after 1731 

d. 1776 

(/."17S6 



d. 1787 
d. after 1736 

d. after 1736 

d. after 1735 

d. after 1735 

d. after 1736 

d. 1806 

d. before 1732 ? 



both F.C. May 10, 1713. 
TV. of Edward. 
d. before 1716. 



TV. of Samuel. 



m. March 24, 1714, Deborah 
Burr, dau. of John and 
Sarah Fitch. 

m. 1733, Ezekiel Sanlord. 

■zuid. of Timothy. 



tu. of Joseph. 



TV. of Samuel, rn. 1697. 

s. of John. 

w. of Hezekiah. 

s. of John. 
s. of Samuel. 
dau. of Edward. 
s. of Ephraim. 

M. 1722. 

w. of Samuel, Jr., m. 1732. 
s. of Ephraim. 
7u. of Jacob. 

w. of Robert, dau. Joseph. 
"'. 1735, Jacob VVakeley. 
dau. of Samuel, Sr. 
of Edward. 



w. of John, 7«. 1734. 



ttti'd. of ■ 



—173— 



Name. 



ills. Abigail 

ikeley, Abigail. 



leeler, Sarah 

leeler, Rebecca 

ills, Sergt. Samuel, Sr 

leeler, Sergt. Samuel , 

ikeley, Jonathan, Sr 

ilker, Joanna 

leeler, Ruth 

ikeley, Ruth 

leeler, Joseph 

leeler, 

leeler, Rebecca 

litacus, Sarah... 

ikeley, Rachel, ^rt/. 1707 

ikeley, Henry 

leeler. Dr. John ,. 

ikeley, Sarah (Frost) 

ikeley, Joseph 

ikeley, Israel 

leeler, Timothy, Sr _ 

leeler. Isaac 

ikeley, Anne ' 

;lls, Samuel, Jr 

ills, Sara h [ 

ikeley, Nathaniel i 

ikeley, Rebecca.. I 

leeler, Ebenezer... 1 

leeler. Abiah 

;lls, Elizabeth j 

ikeman, Anne 

litney, Richard 

leeler. Mannah 

ills, Abigail 

ikeley, Mary 

;rden. Dr. Nathaniel , 

;rden, 

ikeley, _ 

)rden. Jemima 

leeler, Andrew, da/. 1699 

leeler, 

leeler, Samuel, da/, 1701 

leeler, _ 

ikeley, Rebecca 

leeler, Timothy, Jr., d. 1691 

leeler, Anne (Wakeley) 

leeler, Benjamin 

leeler, Mary 

leeler, David, da/. 1713 

leeler, Lois (Chauncey) 

:11s. David, da/, 1718 

ills, Ruth (Burrows) 

leeler, Timothy, da/. 1750 

irden, Capt. William, Sr. ...1768 

)rden, William, Jr 1788 

leeler, Griswold (Grissell) 

jrden, Nancy 

iterman, Rev. Elijah 

iterman. Lucy (Abbe) 

irden, Dorcas (Cooke), d. 1763 ., 

ide, Nathaniel 1793 

( 
1 



Admitted. 



L. July 10, 1695, 
L. July 10, 1695, 



R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
RC. 

L. 

L. 
F.C. 

L. 



Jan. 31,1696. 
Oct. 25, 1696. 
Feb. 8, 1697. 



Feb. 
Feb. 
Feb. 
Feb. 



i, 1697. 
8, i6q7. 
8, 1697. 
8, 1697. 



R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C- 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 
R.C. 



Feb 
Feb. 



F.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 
F.C. 



R.C, 



ide, Ruth. 



F.C. 
F.C. 
R.C. 
R.C 
R.C, 
R.C 
R.C, 
R.C 



jrden, Samuel 1796 -j 



R.C, 
R.C, 
F.C, 
R.C 
F.C. 



Feo. 8, 1697. 

16951 

i6gs, 
Aug. 28, 1698. 
June 17, 1705, 

Feb. 29, 1708. 
Mch. 5. 1710. 
Oct. 28, 1710. 
Mch. II, 1711. 
July 22, 1711. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Oct. a6, 1712. 
Dec. 21, 1712. 
Dec. 21, 1712. 
Oct. 26, 1712. 
Mch. 9, 1712. 
Feb. 7, 1714. 
Feb. 7, 1714. 
7. 1714. 
7,1714- 

1716. 
Feb. 16, 1718. 
June 22, 1718. 
Sept. 7, 1718. 
Dec. 21, 171S. 
Dec. 21, 1718. 
before 1731. 
Aug. 3,1731. 
before 1731. 
before 1731. 
Apr. 16. 1732. 
Apr. 16, 1732. 
Mch. 10, 17^4. 
Feb. 18, 1736. 
Feb. 18, 1736. 
Mch. 25, 1750. 
Mch. 25, 1750. 
July 29, 1750. 
July 29, 1750, 
Men. 30, 1751. 
Mch. 30. 1751. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
Jan. I, 1806. 

1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
before 1806. 
Apr. 8. 1810. 
before 1806. 

1807. 



fr. Concord 
fr. Concord 



fr. Concord 



1856 



Removed. 



fr. Fairfield | 
fr. Stratford 



Remarks. 



ii. 1743, ee. 60 
d. after 1731 
d. after 1731 
d. after 1732 
d. after 1731 
d. 1730, (?. 70 
d. Nov. 17, 1733 

d. Apr. 16, 1751 

d. after 1721 

d. after 1733 



d. about 1719 

d. before 1731 

d. after 1703 

d. after 1732 



m. Thomas Turney, 1709 ? 
dau. of Henry, w. Samuel 

Gregory. Jr. 
w. of Ephraim, 

[3d w. 
m. Oct. 25, 171 1, Abigail — , 



»«. before 1697. 
7u. of Joseph. 
Tvid. of Isaac. 

w. of Henry. 

M. 1710, Sarah Frost. 

w. of Henry, m. 1709. 

[Turney. 
wf, Apr. II, 1689, Rebecca 

Iw. of Timothy Wheeler, Jr. 



TV. of Samuel. 



d. after 1732 
d. after 1731 
d. after 1731 
d. after 1731 



d. 1752. a?. 63 
d. 1764, «. 72 
d. 1798, a: 74 
d. 1798, ev. 71 
d, after 1753 

d. 1793 
d, 1766, ce. 35 
d. 1815, ce. 65 
d. 1808, a. 73 
d. 1813, «■. 54 
d. 1816. £e. 62 

d. 1846 

d. 1825, (T. 56 

d. 1822, (T. 44 

d. 1854 
d. after 1834 

d. 1856 
d. after 1835 



w. of Nathaniel. 
,j. of Isaac. 
^daic. of Ephraim. 
dau. of Samuel, Sr.. nt. 1718, 
I John Chuckstone. [ley. 
;W. 1750, Experience Beards- 
7('. of Dr. John. 
iThird 7v. of Samuel, Sr. 
iu. of Jonathan, Sr. 

j 

|7v. of Dr. Nathaniel. 

■zv. of Israel. 

7u. of Thomas. 

's. of Ephraim. 

w. of Andrew. 

s. of Samuei. 

zu. of Samuel. 

TV. of Jonathan, Jr. 

;?«. 1712. 

w. of Timothy, Jr., w. 1713. 



TV. of Benjamin. 
I.r. of Dr. John. 
Iw. of David. 
\s. of Samuel. Jr. 
\m. 1750, -w. of David, 
of Benjamin. 



«/. of Timothy. 

TV. of Samuel. [w:. 1823. 

2d w., Mrs. Lucy Talcott, 

■Tu. of Rev. Elijah. 

■w. of William, Jr. 

IV. of Nathaniel. 



-1/4- 



CHURCH MEMBERS IN 1731 

As recorded by Rev. Samuel Cooke in book No. /, page j8. 

Tlie present members of this Church in full Communion this 28"" da)' 
of July, 1731: at diverse times admitted are Nathan Beardsles^ wife, John 
Hubbel & his wife, the Widdow Odel ', Alexander Fairchilds wife, Henr)' 
Summers his wife, *Mrs. Smedly, Dr. Wheeler & his Hvife, Justice Bennitt 
& his wife, *Deacon Sherwood & his wife, Serj' Burr* & his 'wife, Henry 
Rowland* & his wife. Widow Wells, *Cap' Sherwood & his wife, Nathaniel 
Wakely his wife, Andrew Wheeler if his wife, M" Hodgdon', Widow Hub- 
bel*, Widow Fayerweather, Major Burr & his wife, Lieu' Richard Hubbel, 
*Moses Jacksons wife, Widow Jackson', John Jackson, Lieu' Daniel Hub- 
bel & his wife, Edward Lacy" & his wife & mother, Stephen" Hubbel his" 
wife, Samuel Cooke & *his wife, David'* Sherman & *his wife, Hez.'' Odel 
& his'* wife, Zech Meads" wife, Ens° Gregory's wife", Enoch Gregory's 
wife", Jonathan Wakely's wife'", Henry Wakely & his wife, John Beardsle" 
& his '^vife, John Hall & his '"wife. Widow" Seelye, Edward Tredwell" & 
his wife. Widow Tredwell'*, Francis HalP' & his wife, Zechariah Lawrence 
his wife, David Jackson, Samuel Trowbridge & his wife, Serj' Odel & his 
wife, Samuef Hall & his ''wife & mother. Cap' Sherman'" & his wife, Sam- 
uel Trowbridge Jun' & his wife, Mr. Edwards & his wife, Thomas Edwards 
& his wife, John Edwards & his wife, Joseph Edwards, Israel Wakely & his 
wife, John Middlebrook & his wife. John Summers & his wife, James Hub- 
bel, Ebenezer Wheelers wife, James Fairchild & his wife, Thaddeus^' Greg- 
ory & his wife^'^ Charles Burritts wife^^ Widow Summers''', Jacob'' Starling 
& his wife, Serj' Joseph*' Booth & his'* wife. Widow "Hawley, *Serj' French 
& his '"wife, Samuel French Jun' his wife, Daniel Beardsles wife, Stephen 
Burrows*' & his '"wife, Nathaniel*' Silliinan & his **wife, Daniel Knaps 
wife, Jonathan Morehouse & his wife, all in good standing; besides whom 
there is the Widow Sarah Hall but lying at present under a publick Censure 
of Admonition. 



-175- 



REV. ELIJAH WATERMAN'S LISTS, 

In book No. I, pages 66-6g, Church Record for 1806. 

1806. Names of Communicants. 

Males. Rev. Elijah Waterman, Pastor. 

Deacon Seth Seelye. 
Deacon Seth Sherman. 

John Cooke (aged gi, son of Rev. Mr. Cooke). 
Abel Seelye. 
Joseph Knap. 

Nehemiah Strong (quondam Professor at College). 
Timothy Wheeler. 
William Warden, Sen. 
1798. Josiali Lacy. 

Deacon James E. Beach — chosen Deacon Oct. 1806. 
1795. Lambert Lockwood. 

Samuel Penny. 



iSoo. 


Lewis Mallet. 


1797. 


Lewis Sturges. 




William Warden, Jun. 


rSoo. 


Justin Smith. 


1798. 


John Nichols. 




Hezekiah Treadwell. 


1S06. 


Stephen Summers (Senior). 




William DeForrest. 




Joseph Backus. 




Robert Treadwell. 


1807. 


Talcot Hawley. 




Samuel Darling — and 




Nancy Darling, his wife. 



Total, ig. 



Dec. 



May 3, 
Sept. 20. 



Females. Mary Sherman, wife of Deacon S. Sherman. 

Widow Mary Lacy. 
Widow Eunice Sterling. 
Widow Eunice Sterling, 2d. 

Mary Seelye, wife of Abel Seelye. 
Widow Anne Hubbell. 
Widow Ellen Hubbell. 
Widow Anne Hubbell. 
Widow Ellen Hawley. 
Widow Griswold Burroughs. 
Widow Mary Hubbell. 
Widow Mary Treadwell. 

Huldah Beach, wife of Dr. J. E. Beach. 

Griswold Wheeler, wife of Timothy Wheeler. 



— 176 — 

i8o6. Names of Communicants. 

Females. Huldah Parish, wife of Joel Parish. 

Charity Sherman, wife of Ebenezer Sherman. 
Nancj' Warden, wife of Samuel Warden. 
Rebecca Sherman, wife of David Sherman. 
Elizabeth Lockwood, wife of Lamt. Lockwood. 
Lucy Waterman, wife of Rev. E. Waterman. 
Jemima Penny, wife of Samuel Penny. 
Betsey Summers, wife of Stephen Summers, Jun. 
Jemima Burr, wife of Samuel Burr. 
Hannah Dudley, wife of Azel Dudley. 
Jerusha Cable, wife of Samuel Cable. 
Anne Lacy, wife of Josiah Lacy. 
Mary Sturges, wife of Lewis Sturges. 
Irena Hull, wife of William B. Hull. 

Smith, wife of Justin Smith. 

Anne Mallet, wife of Lewis Mallet. 
Dorcas Warden, wife of William Warden, Jun. 
Miss Anna Seelye. Total, 32. 

Jan. 1S07. Mary Summers, wife of Stephen Summers. 

Sally Deforrest, wife of William Deforrest. 

Huldah Backus, wife of Joseph Backus. 

Sophia Treadvvell, wife of Robert Treadwell. 
March i, 1807. Philena Gregory, wife of James Gregory. 

May 3. Widow Miriam Hubbell. 



'//- 



NAMES OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS 

Who have come with their children to the Ordinance of Baptism. 

1806. Samuel Hawley and Lucy his wife. 

Abijah Hawley and Polly his wife. 

David Hawley. 

Aaron Hawley and Griswold his wife. 

Wilson Hawley and Charity his wife. 

Gurdon Hawley and Anne his wife. 
Widow Ruth Hawley. 

Ebenezer Hawley. 

Zalmon Hawley and Anne his wife. 

Salmon Hubbell and Sarah his wife. 

Ezekiel Hubbell and Catharine his wife. 

Aaron Hubbell and Sally his wife. 

David Hubbell and Anne his wife. 

Joseph Strong. 

Silas Sherman and .^bbe his wife. 

Abijah Morehouse and Rachel his wife. 

Stephen Summers, Jun., and Betsey his wife. 

Samuel Burr. 

Ezra Gregory and Sarah his wife. 

Stephen Hull and Abigail his wife. 

Thomas Gouge and Ruth his wife. 

David Sterling and Deborah his wife. 

Nathaniel Wade and Ruth his wife. 

William Deforrest and Sally his wife. 

Daniel Fayerweather and Betsey his wife. 

Samuel Warden. 

Ichabod Lewis. 

Thomas Brothwell and his wife. 

Widow Ann Meaker. 

Elijah Burr and Deborah his wife. 

David Meaker and Esther his wife. 
Widow Sarah Sterling. 

Drew Morgan and his wife. 

Polly Burroughs. 
Capt. Stephen Summers and Mary his wife. 

James Gregory and Philena his wife. 

Philip Sterling and Ruth his wife. 

Azel Dudley. Total, 71. 

July 31, 1806. Primus Freeman and Chloe his wife. ) ^ 

Thomas Freeman and Chloe his wife. ) 
Betty Smith, wife of Brace Smith. 
Zechariah Sherwood and Anna his wife. 

July 5, 1807. William Risley and Lavina Risley his wife. 

12 



-178- 



NAMES OF PERSONS 



Connected with the parish, mentioned in the church record, many of whom may 

have been church or covenant members, hit who are not so 

designated in the records, i6p^ to i8jo. 



Name. 



Year of 
Mention. 




Adams, Freegrace 1704 

Allen, Ebenezer.- 1792 

Allen, Edna (Wheeler) 

Allen, Nehemiah 

Allen, Samuel B 

Andrews, — 

Allen, --- 

Allen, Capt. James, 3d 

Allen, 

Allen, Hannah 



Burr, Sarah m. June 29, 1692 

Burr, Rebecca 1704 

Barly, --- 1706 

Burroughs, John 1706, 1711 

Bostwick, Joseph 1709 

Bulkley, Peter _ 1 

Booth, Jonathan 1709, 1710 

Beardsle)', Nathaniel i7io| 

Beardsley, -- 1710 

Beecher, Sarah ..- -.- 1710 

Bennett, Isaac. Jr., i5a/.i7ii. 1736 

Bacon, Beriah -- 1713 

Bronson, Richard - 1714 

Bennett, Jeremiah 1716 

Beach, Esther 1716 

Burroughs, Hannah 1720 

Bassett, Jonadab -- - 

Burroughs, Eunice 1720 

Burr, Thaddeus 1732 

Barnham, Abner 

Burr, Nathaniel 

Burrows, Patience.- 

Brown, Ann b. 1742 

Burr, Mary 

Beach, Elizabeth 1742 

Bennett, Hannah 

Burton, Ruth 

Beardsley, Robert 1750, 1754 

Burritt, Charles, Jr 1750 

Beardsley, Johannah 

Benedict, Joseph 

Beardsley, Experience.. 

Burr, Capt. John 

Burr, Catharine 

Burr, Joseph 1754 



1830, £S. 77 
i8og, <?. 74 
i8io, a-. Si 
1818, 0. 35 
1821, (^. 22 

1824 
1826, «. 40 

1S28 
1828, <j. 68 

before 1698 



1773 



1742, <^. 33 

1743, (C. 31 
1748, (s. 30 

1799, a. 61? 



1780 
1752. <r. 55 
I753> «■ 53 



Remarks. 



Stratford Church, 1701. 

dati.oiwid. Hannah, tw. of Nehemiah. 



•w, of . 

w. of James, 3d. 



■w. of Ethan. 
w. of Ebenezer. 

dau. of Col. John, w. of Rev. Charles 
m. Capt. Sam. Sherwood. [Chauncey. 
wid. of . 



m. 1709, Hannah ■ 
w. of Nathaniel. 



m. Anne Odell. 



m. Capt. Daniel Hubbell. 
m. 1719, Mary Phippany. 



m. 1732, Rachel Wakeley. 

m. 1732, Mary Turney. 

w. 1736, David Sanford. 

m. Wolcott Chauncey. 

w. of William. 

m. Lt. Benjamin Fayerweather. 

w. of Dea. William. 

w. of Solomon. 



m. 1750, Hezekiah Seeley. 
m. 1750, Elizabeth Hall. 
m. 1750, Richard Whitney. 



w. of John. 



—179- 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 



Burr, Charity (Wells) 

Burrit, Elihu 1758 

Bennett, Mary 1770 

Burr, John _ 

Bangs, 

Bennett, 

Burton, 

Burton, Richard 

Burr, Daniel 1773 

Burr, Margaret 1773 

Burroughs, Lieut. Edward. 

Burrit, Comfort 

Bennett, Joseph Wilson... 1778 

Burritt, Isaac 

Bennett, Sarah 1785 

Burritt, Lucy 

Booth, Jerusha 1789 

Beardsley, 

Burroughs, 

Bennett, 

Burr, Capt. Gershom 1793 

Burr, Charity 

Burr, Rebecca , 

Baker, 

Burroughs, David 

Beach, 

Beach, Lazarus 1796 

Burritt, 1796 

Burr, Susannah 

Burr, 

Bradley, ■ • 

Burroughs, Ephraim 

Bennett, 

Beardsley, Truman 

Benedict, Thaddeus 

Broadfoot, • — - — 

Baker,— 

Burritt, Charles? 

Burritt, Lucy 

Bennett, Elizabeth _, 

Burroughs, Hulda 

Beardsley, Wheeler 

Burritt, Sarah __ 

Burtington, N 

Bennett, Philip 

Beardsley, Abij.ah 

Brinsmade. Samuel 

Benedict, 

Blakeman, Capt. Curtis 1810 

Backus. Rev. Simon 1805 

Benedict, Esther 

Burr, Hephzibah (Nichols) 

Burroughs, Marj' 

Burr, Jesse 

Burr, Aaron 

Burritt, Abigail 

Burritt, Sarah 




1771, <s. 44 
1771 
1772 
1772 
1773 



1776, a. 42? 

1777 
1813, a. i>2'i 
1782, a. 24 

1788 

1790 
1791 
1792 

I794> «. 27 
1794, a. 27 

1795 

1795 

1795 



1796, a. 24 

1797 

1797 

1798 

1798 

1798 

1800 

1801 

1801 
1801, a. 80 
1801, m. 80 

1802 
1803, a. 66 

1S04 
1S05, a. 63 

1805 
1807, tc. 80 

1807, (s. 23 
180S, <e. 57 

1808, CE. 53 

1823, a 85 
1810, a. 35 

1 8 10, (e. Tl 

1811, cz. 41 
1813 

1814, tB, 57 

I814, IE. 81 
I815 



Remarks. 



dau. of John Wells, wid. of William 
[Burr, m. Joseph Strong. 
dau. of Dea. Wm. and Eunice ; m. 
[Dea. Elijah Hawley. 
w. of Lemuel. 
w. of Jeremiah. 
w. of Richard. 



w. of Daniel. 
w. of . 



s. of Elihu and Eunice. 



w. of Charles. 
■ui. of Samuel. 
w. of Squire. 

wid. of . 

w. of Joseph W. 



dau. of Ozias. 
dau. of Ozias. 
w. of Scotts. 



■w. of Lazarus. 



wid. of Sherman. 

dau. of Daniel and Margaret. 

w. of Ozias, Jr. 

wid. of . 



w. of Philip. 



s. of Thaddeus. 

w. of . 

w. o( Capt. Jonathan. 

w. of Charles. 

dau. of Peter and Mary, w. Stephen. 

w. of Elijah. 



w. of Jesse. 



w. of Jesse. 

wid, of Justus. 

w. of Capt. Stephen. 



w. of Elijah. 



— I So— 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 



Brothwell, Mehitable 

Bennett, Abijali 

Burroughs, Elizabeth Ann. 
Brinsmade, 



Burrit, Comfort — 

Brothwell, Capt. William 

Bradley, Charit)' 

Beardsley, Amos - 

Botsford, Moses K 1819 

Beers, Mary 

Benedict, William 

Boughton, John 1819 

Burr, Sarah _ 

Booth, Ebenezer 

Baldwin, Phebe 

Birch, David 1822 

Brown, Ebenezer 1822 

Bradley, 



Boughton, Chauncey. 
Benedict, Deborah — 

Benedict, Comfort 

Boughton, Daniel.. .. 
Blarkman, Frederick 

Bulkley, 

Banks, Laura 

Beardsley, Lucy 

Brothwell, William .. 
Benedict, Thaddeus . 

Booth, Comphy . 

Beardsley, Drusilla .. 



Chauncey, John b. l6g5 

Chauncey, Ich. Wolcot -.*. 1703 

Clark, Ephraim 1704 

Corbit, John 

Cole, Samuel 1716, 1717 

Chuckstone, lolin 1718 

Chauncey, W'olcot b. 1732 

Cooke, Sarah 

Chapman, Hope 1744, 1755 

Chauncey, Lois 
Cable, Andrew. 

Clifford, Dr. Daniel 1773 

Cope, John 
Cook, 




Cable, Wheeler 

Cole, Mary 

Crofut James — - 1785 

Clark, Bensom 1792 

Cable, Samuel. .1765, 1782, 1793 

Cable, Mary. 

Cooke, - 

Clifford, Daniel 1801, 1825 

Cable, William 1803 

Cooley, Benjamin 

Cadwell, Deborah 

Clark, David 18:2 



1815, «■. 75 
1815, cr. 22 
1S15, ce. 41 

1817 

1818 
1818, a. 25 
1818, a. 27 

1818, ce. 74 

1819, cs. 52 

1819, s. 41 

1820, i?. 81 

1820, a. 47 

1821, <r. 34 



1822, a. 82 
1825, (Z. 25 
1825, CE. 6g 

1825, cB. 62 

1826, ce. 59 
1826, ce. 19 

1826 
1826, ce. 33 

1828 
1828, ce. 73 

1838 
1843, ce. 66 
1839, «. 87 



1805 



before 1771 
1781 
1776 
1777 
17S2 
1782 
1810 

1806 

1793. 'J- 54 

1799 

1822, ce. 55 
1803 
1806 



Remarks. 



wid. of Joseph. 



w. of Edward. 

sister of Elijah Burritt, wid. of . 



s. of Thomas. 

sister of Sturges. 



■w. of Ozias. 
vj. of Eliada. 



■wid. of Hezekiah. 



wid. of Thaddeus, Esq. 
w. of . 



w. of Morehouse. 
w. of . 



wid. of Ebenezer. [David Sherman. 
wid. of Ensign Abijah, date, of Dea. 



s. of Rev. Charles, 
.f. of Rev. Charles. 



m. 1712, Mary Peat. 



m. Elizabeth Wells. 

s. of Robert, nt. Ann Brov?n. 

m. :734, James Sherman. 

m. 1749, David Wheeler. 



10. of Thomas. 
s. of Samuel ? 



w. of Samuel. 
w. of John 



— I8l— 



Name. 



Year of 
Mention. 




Clark, Caty 1812 

Cooke, Thomas 

Canfield, Ransom E.. .1815, 1829 

Curtis, Polly 

Coleman, Lemuel 1821, 1838 

Clarke, Sarah 

Curtis, Selina . 

Curtis, Epenetus 

Chatfield, Mary 

Clifford, Mary 

Clifford, Emily 

Cannon, John S 

Cable, .. 

Curtis, Blakeman .. 

Curtis, David 



Dunning, John 1703, 1713 

Dunning, Benjamin. .1707, 1713 

Downs, John _. 1713 

Davis, Mary .. 

Dannie, John 1732 

Davison, James 1732 

Dibble, Abigail .. 

Dibble, Ezra -- .. 

Denison, Robert .. 

Dumond, __ 

Daskam, .. 

Dickinson, Amelia .. 

DeForest, Philo 

Downs, 



Edwards, 



1733 



Edwards, Samuel 1796 

Edwards, Shelton 

Ells, Hannah 1798 

Edwards, Zachariah 

Edgerton, Patience 1811 

Evitts, Daniel- 

Edwards, Prime 

Edmonds, George 

Ellis, Elisha 

Everett, Benjamin 

Everts, 



Emery, Thomas . 

Eaton, Polly (Sherman) 

French, Deborah, bap. 1696 

Fairchild, Spidon? 1704 

Fairchild, 1704 

Frost, Sarah 

Ferris, Samuel 1711 

Fairchild, David 1713 

Fairchild, Daniel 1713 

Frost, Eleanor 

Fitch, Daniel 

French, Martha 

French, Gamaliel, Sr 



1814, a. 64 
1813, s. 33 

1822, IB. 37 

Oct. 7, 1823, a. 28 
Dec. 5, 1823, a. 37 

1824, a. 99 

1825, IE. 24 
1825, (E. 24 
1828, ,z. 74 

1S29 
1838 
1838 



1782 




1803 




1819, a. 


28 


1826, CE 


46 


1827 




1796 




1809, a. 


35 


1815, (2. 


54 


1822 




1823, a. 


62 


1825, m. 


44 


1825, a. 


24 


1827 




1828, ce. 


27 


1830, a. 


51 



Remarks. 



w. of David. 



w. of Matthew. 



w. of Joseph. 
w. of Epenetus. 



wid. of — ^— 
■w. of Daniel. 
w. of James. 



w. of Thomas. 



1738, iz. 32 



M. Deborah Odell. 
m, 1718, Samuel Lyon. 



m. 1731, Samuel Starr. 
m. 1733, Elizabeth Wheeler. 
711. 1733, Prudence Sherman. 
w. of William. 
w. of James. 



w. of Thomas. 



w. of Nathaniel. 
w. of Eleazar. 



w. of ■ 



dau. of Elnathan, iv. of William. 



'diid. of ? 

m. 1710, Henry Wakeley. 



VI. 1718, Jacob Weed. 
m. 1732, Sarah Sherwood. 
m. 1734, Peter Sherman. 



— 1 82— 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 



French, Hannah 

French, Line 

French, Sarah 1754 

French, Ichabod 

Frost, Benjamin 

French, Hannah 

Fayerweather, Nathaniel .. 

French, 

French, Wheeler 

Fowler, Nehemiah 1791 

Fairchild, Gershom 

Fayerweather, James 1798 

French, Capt. Samuel 1S02 

French, Mary 

French, Mehitable 

French, Mary 

French, John 1S18 

French, Gamaliel, Jr 

French, 

French, Ann 

Gregory, Samuel, Jr. 1701 

Gregory, Miriam 

Gold, John 1732 

Garner, Edward 1736 

Gregory, Ruth 

Gregory, 

Gregory, 

Gregory, 

Gregory, Ebenezer 

Goodsell, William 1819 

Green, Jane 

Gregory, Robert 

Gouge, Frederick C 

Gibbs, Augusta 

Hubbell, Capt. David ...b. 1690 

Hall, Rebecca, bap. 1703 1723 

Henrie, Samuel 1705, 1712 

Hall, Burgess, bap. 1701 1734 

Hawley, Joseph 1705 

Huttun, Sarah 1706 

Hollinsworth, Richard 1711 

Hull, Deborah - 1711 

Hall, Sarah 

Handford, - 1732 

Hartshorn, Ebenezer 1732 

Hawley, Catharine 1739 

Hall, Francis 

Hubbell, Elnathan 1743 

Hubbell, Sarah (Seeley) 

Hawley, Ephraim 1747 

Hawley, Sarah 1747 

Hawley, Sarah 1748 

Hall, Ichabod 1749 

Hubbell, Ebenezer 1750 

Hodgdon, Mehitable 




Remarks. 



1745. «• 33 



1776 
1776 
1777 
1779 

1785 
1790 

1792 

1820, (B. 46 
1803 

1803, a. 45 
1811, IS. 71 
1S14, cs. 72 

1828, a: 72 

1830 
1841, «. 70 



1772, !F. 36 

I7S6 
1786 
1787 

I8II 

1821, (S. 27 
1825, a:. 40 
1825, <r. 18 
1829, a. 20 

1735 



1729, a:. 26 
1739. -^^ 39 

1744, (T. 22 
1800 



w. of Gamaliel, Sr. 

m. i7=;o, Jedediah Wells. 

VI. of Gamaliel. 



w. of James. 



w. of James. 
■w. of James. 
w. of Benjamin. 



,w. of Joseph B. 
■w. of James R. 



m. 1732, Ebenezer Hartshorn. 



■w. of Seth. 

wid. of Thaddeus, Sr. 

w. of Samuel. 

w. of James. 



■w. of Thomas. 



daii. of Francis ; m. Abner Frost. 

J. of Isaac. 

m. Robert Jackson. 

m. John Beardsley, Sr. 
w. of John. 

w. of . 

m. Miriam Gregory. 

m. Lt. William Bennett. 



7u. of Jabez. 



w. of Ephraim. 
TO. of Samuel. 



m. 1750, Nehemiah Mead. 



-i83- 



Name. 




Hall, Elizabeth 

Hill, Mary 

Hubbell, Onesimus 

Hubbell, Rebecca 

Hawley, Molly 

Hunt, Grissel 1770 

Hall, Stephen (Hull?) 1770 

Hall, Sarah 1770 

Hubbell, Roxana _ 1770J 

Hubbell, Ann ] 

Hall, James 1770 

Hall, Abigail 1770 

Hall, Benjamin 1770 

Hawley, Abigail 1772 

Hubbell, Esther 

Hall, Huldah 

Hall, Mary Stiles 

Hubbell, Joseph 1774 

Hubbell, Katharine 

Hawley, Elizabeth 

Hall, Nathan 

Hawley, Ephraim, Jr. _-_-. 

Holberton, Ruth 1777 

Hubbell, Joseph, Jr 1777 

Hubbell, William 1777 

Hubbell, Walter 1777 

Hubbell, Ruth 1777 

Hubbell, Daniel, Jr. .- 

Hawley, Ann 

Hubbell, Capt. Isaac 1778 

Hall, 



Hawley, Sarah 

Hoyt, Elizabeth 

Haws, W 

Hall, Island 1782 

Hinman, 

Hawley, William 

Hubbell, 



Hawley, Ephraim 1786 

Hubbell, 



Hawley, Sarah (Comstock). 

Hoyt, Capt. James 

Hubbell, Benjamin, Jr 

Halberton, William 1790 

Hillard, William 1792 

Hubbell, Hezekiah 

Hawley, Isaac 

Hawley, Isabel 

Hinman, Isaac 1794 

Hubbell, Eunice 

Hodgson, Hannah 

Hubbell, Isaac 

Hall, Gershom 

Hall, John B 1795 

Hall, Lucy 

Hubbell, Rebecca 

Hawley, David, Jr 



1754, «. 23 

1754. 'Z'- 19 
1765, CB. 17 



1805, a. 60 
1770, s. 23 



1774 
1786, ffi. 71 

1772 
1773. '2- 20 

1773 

1777 

1776, CB. 23 

1776, ce. 35 
1776 

1777, a. 30 



1805 



1778, ce. 28 
1778 
1787 
1778 
1781 
1781 
1781 

1782 
1784 
1785 
before 1795 
17S6 

1786, cs. 39 

1787, ce. 54 
17S8 
1797 

1792 
1792 

1793 
1817, a. 54 

1794, ffi. 38 
1794 
1795 

1795. cs. 28 

1796 
1796 
1797 



Remarks. 



m. 1750, Joseph Benedict. 
m. J 750, Elnathan Parrott. 

dau. of Samuel and Rebecca. 
dau. of Samuel and Sarah. 
w. of Isaac. 

lu. of Stephen. 
w. of Richard, Jr. 
dau. of Benjamin. 

w. of James. 

w. of Ezra. 

wid. of ■ 



dau. of Richard and Hannah. 



w. of Capt. Amos. 

dau. of Capt. Ezra; 1st w. of Aaron. 



w. of Capt. Thomas. 



w. of Walter. 
dau. of Ephraim. 



w. of Ebenezer. 
w. of David. 



wid. of . 

w. of Gideon. 



w. of Capt. Isaac. [Aaron. 

dau. of Jonathan ; 2d w. of Maj. 



wid. of Abraham. 



dau. of Stephen. 



— 1 84— 



Name. 




Hawley, Samuel 1797 

Hall, 

Hubbell, Capt. Wilson 1798 

Hubbell, 

Hubbell, Rebecca ... .. 

Hubbell, Philo 



Hubbell, Sarah 

Hawley, Capt. Daniel. 
Hubbell, 



Hoyt, George 1800 

Hoyt, Deborah 1800 

Hall, Philena 

Hubbell, Mary Alice 1801 

Hall, 



Hollinsworth, Ruth- 

Hall, Martha 

Hubbell, Esther 

Hodgden, William.. 
Hubbell, 



Hoyt, James 

Hubbell, Elinor - 1805 

Hubbell, Capt. Ezra _ 

Hall, Ebenezer 

Hall, Mabel 

Hoyt, Sarah 

Hubbell, 

Hubbell, John__ 

Hopkins, John 

Hinman, Charity _ 

Hall, Lucy 

Hawley, Capt. Aaron 

Hultz, ■ 



Hubbell, Betsey 

Hawley, Salmon i8li 

Hubbell, Henry 

Hull, Samuel-. 

Hawley, Elijah 

Hubbell, Abigail 

Hull, Wakeman.1817, 1850, 1861 

Hultz, Polly 

Hall, Richard 

Hubbell, Anson 

Hubbell, Charles Raymond 

Holberton, Capt. Thomas 

Hodges, 1823 

Hopkins, Mehitable 

Holberton, Bathsheba .. . 

Hawley, John 

Hubbell, Onesimus 

Hopkins, 



Hawley, Betsey 

Hinman, Capt. Munson . 

Hoyt, George, Cashier 

Hopkins, Catharine 

Holman, Dr. Thomas ... 

Hawley, Samuel, (r. 

Hawley, Frederick 



1825 



1797 
1799, a. 26 

1798 
1798, a. 39 

1798 
1798, (T. ig 

1799 

1799 



1801 

1801 
1802 
1S02 
1802, ct. 36 
1803 
1804 

1804, a. 44 

1805 

1805 
1807, a. gi 
1807, tT- 72 

1807, (c. 40 

1 805, ct. 63 

1808, a. 51 
1S08 

1809, ce. 22 

1810, a. 40 
1810 

1811, ,£•. 23 

1814, a. 22 

1814, a. 27 

1815, „'. 77 

1816, IT. 66 

1819 

1819 
18 19, ,<-. 32 
1819, (C. 34 

1822, a. S4 

1824, a. 51 
1S24 

1823, ,v.. 18 

1824, iz. 6g 
1824 

1825, a. 26 

1825, a. 56 

1825, (E. 11 

1826, a. 32 
1826, a:. 27 

1827 



Remarks. 



w. of Drew. 



w. of Wilson. 
<iau. of Daniel. 
s. of Richard. 



7t/. of Abel. 



dati. of Stephen. 
w. of Capt. Ezekiel. 
w. of Stephen. 



■wid. of 

dau. of Daniel. 

tc. of Ezra. 

w. of Salmon. 



zvid. of . 

wid. of Capt. James ? 
■wid. of Timothy. 
s. of Benjamin. 



■w. of Isaac. 



w. of David, Jr. 



s. of Salmon. 
J. of Stephen. 



wid. of - 
wid. of • 



w. of Capt. Thomas. 

s. of Abijah, Sr. 
s. of Daniel. 

wid. of . 

w. of Capt. Abijah. 



-i8s- 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 




Hubbell, George 

Hubbell, Alfred 

Hall, Ebenezer 

Hall, 

Hawle}', Isaac 

Havvley, John 

Hubbell, Anson Ezekiel 

Hubbell, George William . 

Hubbell, Eunice 

Hubbell, Catharine 

Hoyt, Mercy Nichols 

Hubbell, Elizabeth 

Hubbell, Sarah 

Hubbell, Thaddeus 

Hubbell, Penelope 

Jackson, Esther, bap. l6g6. 

Jackson, Joshua _. 1698 

Jennings, Eunice. _ 

Jennings, John 1732 

Jones, John _ 1734 

Jackson, Rachel 1739 

Jackson, David 1750 

Jackson, Amos 1754 

Jennings, Sally 

Jackson, Aaron.. 

Jones. Dr 1825 

Jones, Ira- 

Jennings, Sarah (Ross) 

Jones, Charity. 

Knapp, Daniel 1731 

Knapp, Mary 

Kimberly, Prudence .. . 

Knapp, Freelove. 

Knapp, 

Knapp, 

Knapp, 

Kirtland, Zebulon 17S8 

Kirtland, Olive 

Knapp, Abijah 1790 

Knapp, John 

Knapp, Hannah 

Kirtland, Ezra, Jr 

Kirtland, Olive (Wakeley). 

Kirtland, Elijah 

Keith, John 

Knapp, Lyman P. 

Keeler, Anne ■ 

Knapp, Mary 

Keeler, Patrick 

Knapp, Robert 

Lacey, Ebenezer, bap. 1704. 1735 

Lake, Thomas 1706 

Leavenworth, Thomas 1708 

Lyon, Hannah.. 1709, 1714 



1828 

1S28 

1828 

1828 
1828, IE. 35 

1829 
1S30, cs. 23 
1831, a. 35 
1538, a. 68 

1838 

1839, a. 80 

1840, ce. 90 
1S42, (Z-. 8i 
1849, "^-SS 
1864, cs. 92 



1803 

1823 

1836, (Z. 65 
1839, ce. 83 
1845, m. Ti 



\Tj\,a. 31 

1782 

1784 

1786 
1803. a. 58 
1790, «. 14 

1795, a. 82 

1796, (B. y6 
1799, <?. 47 
1803, iz. 69 

1810 

1811 
1813, a:. 50 
1815, «■. 63 
1825, (?. 18 

1829, IE. 76 

1834, IS. 52 



Remarks. 



w. of Elias. 

s. of Samuel, Dec'd. 



s. of Capt. Ezekiel. 
s. of Capt. Ezekiel. 



dau. of Benjamin. 
w. of Abel. 



i/au. of Richard, Jr., and Roxana. 

w. of Moses, Sr. 

m. 1731, Elnathan Lyon. 



w. of Isaac. 



dau. of Rev. Robert, w.oi Eliphalet. 
t/au. of Jos. Strong, Esq., w. of Ira. 



f"- 1733, Phinehas Price. 
"'• 1735, Josiah Smith. 
w. of Capt. Joseph. 
w. of James. 
w. of Capt. Joseph. 
w. of James. 
m. Betsey Cook. 
dau. of Ezra. 



w. of John. 

dau. of Zebulon, uiid. of Ezra. 



ist -w. of Patrick. 
dau. of Ephraim. 



s. of Edward. 
w. of Nathaniel. 



-1 86— 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 




Lyon, Nathaniel 1711, 1714 

Lacey.Henry, 1716, 1717 

Lacey, Hannah 1717 

Lyon, Samuel 

Lawrence, Zachariah 1731 

Lyon, Elnathan _ 

Lacej', Ephraim i749, i754 

Loveland, Asa 1770 

Lacey, 

Lemon, George _. 

Little, Ruth (Winton) 

Lake, 

Little, Otis 

Lacey, Ruth _ 

Lacej', Margaret 

Lacey, Molly 

Lacey, John 

Lake, Reuben 

Lake, 

Linus, Nathaniel _ 

Lacey, Tabitha 

Linus, Polly _ 

Lacey, Josiah 

Lyman, Eunice. 

Lacey, Squire 

Lacey, Betsey. 

Linus, Mary 

Lewis. Hazard 

Lewis, Clark 1825 

Lewis, Everit 1825 

Layfield, 

Layfield, Mary 

Lewis, Truman 

Lewis, Chary. ._ 

Lace)', Michael .. . 

Lacey, Sarah 

Leavens, Eleanor.. 

Mallery, Peter 1709 

Morehouse, 1709 

Morehouse, Nathan 1710 

Miles, Lt. Richard 

Mallory, Mary 1721 

Meeker, Ebenezer 1732 

Moss, Abigail 

Moss, Mrs. Mary 

Morris, George 1738, 1744 

Merritt, George 1748, 1753 

MacKane, 1750 

Mead, Nehemiah 

Machard, Matthew, Jr 

Morehouse, Ruth 1770 

Morehouse, David 1770 

Mead, Sarah 

Meeker, William 

Mann, Hannah 

Mekinzy, Gilbert 1777 



17S0 

1781 

1784, a:. 53 

1785 

1788 

17S8, a. 27 

1792, <?. 52 

1793, <r. 32 

1793, IF. 84 

181 1, <.-. 73 

1812 
1S13, (Z. 24 
1 8 14, cs. 64 
1816, (T. 34 

1818, (7. 22 

1819, IT. 65 
18 I 9, <E. 30 
1822, (?. 38 

1824, <?. 71 

1825, a. 71 



1827 
1827, a. 18 

IS3O, (B, 61 

I83I, <?. 64 

IS35, T. 51 

183S, a:. 65 
1835, <?. 55 



before 1773 
1757, (?. 21 

1801 
1773 
1777 
1777 



Remarks. 



w. of Henry. 

m. 1718, Mary Davis. 



m. 1732, Eunice Jennings. 
s. of John. 

IV. of Capt. Josiah. 

[William. 
wid. of Joseph Brinsmade, w. of Dr. 
7v. of Thomas. 



w. of Capt. Josiah. 
wid. of Benjamin. 
-V. of Capt. Josiah. 



wid. of Reuben. 
w. of Capt. Daniel. 



wid. of George. 
w. of Nathaniel. 



w. of - 



w. of Noah. 



m. 1716, Mrs. Elizabeth Chauncey. 
m. Alexander Fairchild. 

*"• 1733. Samuel Cooke. 

m. 1736, Rev. Ebenezer White. 



m. 1750, Sarah Hodgdon. 
s, of Matthew and Sarah. 
w. of Seth. 

wid. of Nehemiah. 

wid, of . 



-1 87- 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 




Meeker, 

Meeker. John 1778 

Mackam, 

Morehouse, 

MacDimon, 

Meeker, Peter 1791 

Morehouse, Martha 

Morehouse, Isaac 

Meeker, Lyinan 1800 

Minot, 

Morehouse, Eunice 

Mackenzie, John . 

Mackenzie, James - 

Meeker, Clark 

Middlebrook. Samuel 

Meeker, Polly - 

Middlebrook, Jerusha 

Mallet, Avis 

Mallory, Jonathan 

Mallory, Sarah 

Morehouse, Anne 

Morse, Samuel C 1824, 1826 

Mason, 

Miller, George 

Morehouse, Abijah 

Minot, Sarah 

Mills, Jonathan 

Mitchell, Patience 

Mills, 

Moore, Mark 1827 

Morgan, Elizabeth 

May, 

Morehouse, .. 

Morehouse, Lorinthia 

Nichols, Abram 1703 

Nichols, Benjamin. -before 1714 

Nichols, Esther 

Nichols, Mehitable 

Nichols, Rebecca 

Nichols, Sarah 

Nichols, Hulda 

Nickerson, 

Nichols, 

Nichols, 

Nichols, Reuben 

Nichols, Philip 

Nichols, Mary 

Nichols, Nancy 

Nichols, Samuel . 

Nichols, Catharine 

Nash, Grace 

Northrop, Norman 1828 

Nichols, Phebe 

Niles, Samuel 

Nichols, Hannah 



1777 

1810, <e. 76 

1784 

1786 

1787 

1792 
1796 

1800 
1801, ce. 27 

1802 

1802 

1812 

1815 
1817, iz. 26 

1819 

1819 or 1829 

1821, (2. 77 

829 ? 1822 ? a. 74 

1823, a. 37 

1825, a. 22 

1826, le. 42 
1826, a. 44 
1826, te. 64 
1826, IS. 56 
1826, a:. 56 

1826 

1828 
1828, «. 40 
1837, ce. 82 
1841, a. 30 



1735, ce. 32 
1749, cs. 36 
1753, «. 19 
1759,^.40 

1781 

1785 

1786 

1797 
1807, ce. 80 

1811, «. 77 

1812, ce. 27 

1814, ce. 11 

1815, te. 47 
1815, ce. 44 

1835, ce. 82 

1838 
1855, ce. 69 



Remarks. 



wid. of - 



wid. of . 

IV. of David. 
w. of . 



■wid. of . 

w. ai Lyman. 



w. of Seeley. 
w. of Bradley. 



wid. of Jonathan. 



w. of Isaac. 



w. of ■ 



■w. of Joel. 

w. of Jonathan. 



wid. of . 

w. of Joseph. 



dau. of Anson and Anna. 



m. 1717, Daniel Wheeler. 
w. of John. 
w. of John. 



w. of John. 

of Nathaniel. 
w. of John. 
ivid. of . 



wid. of Philip. 
w. of George. 



w. of Richard P. 
wid. of . 



wid. of John, Jr. 



— 188- 



Name. 



Year of 

Mention. 




Odell, Sarah 

Odell, Ebenezer 

Odell, Johannah (Peck) 

Odell, Phinehas 

Odell, Hannah 

Odell, Walker 1789 

Odell, Temperance 

Odell, Isaac -. 

Odell, Isaac- 

Pigsly, William 1703 

Paterson, Andrew 1703 

Peat, Mary _ 

Phippany, Mary 

Phippan}', Johannah__ 

Prime, Capt. Joseph 1732 

Price, Phinehas _ 

Prince, Samuel 1750 

Parrott, Elnathan 

Porter, Hannah 

Parish, Joel 1770, 1806 

Plant, Joel 

Parish, Abigail (Hawley).. 1770 

Price, Mary 

Patchin, Ann _. 

Pratt, 

Patchin, 

Patchin, Abijah 

Patchen, Wolcott 1794 

Patchin, Serjt. Isaac, 1777? 1794 

Patchen, -- 

Patchin, Salmon 1795 

Porter, Samuel 

Peck, 

Parrott, 

Porter, Lucy 1800 

Pixley, Anna 

Porter, Anna 

Porter, Abiah (Hubbell) 

Porter, Sarah 

Patchin, Ruah 

Porter, Lucy 

Porter, John 

Patchin, Victory.. 

Page, Harvey 

Peet, Anson 

Parrott, Isaac 1816 

Parsons, Mercy 

Pendleton, Eunice 

Piercy, Nathaniel 

Perry, Polly 

Peet, 

Pixley, _ 

Peet, Henry 1825 

Penfield, Hannah 

Perry, Tolman 

Perry, Burr 



1743, <j. 19 

1776, cs. 37 

1776 



1794, «. 27 

1801 
1826, a: 68 



1727 



1763, <j. 61 

1774 
1777, '?• 37 

1780 

17S0 

1785 

1789 

17S9 

1799 
1832, „-. 85 

1794 

1807, (?. 40 
1795, a. 78 

1799 
1799 

1800, iz. 69 

1801, ij. 76 
1805 

1805, IS. 25 

1808, iz. 63 
1SI2, I?. 31 

I8I3 

1815, a. 22 

1815, &". 32 

1816, te. 21 

1818, fr. 30 
1S20, le. 59 

1822 

1824 
1825, <i-. 78 

1825, a-. 62 

1826, (?. 84 
1826, ir. 34 
1826, <i~. 32 



Remarks. 



m. 1713, Dan. Comstock, of Norwalk. 
s. of William and Sarah. 
w. of Samuel. 

m. Nath. Seeley, m. Stephen Sterling. 



J-. of Isaac. 



m. 1712, John Corbit. 

m. 1719, Jonadab Bassett. 

m. 1722, Dea. Lem. Sherwood. 

m. 1733, Mary Knapp. 
m. 1733, Abigail Wells. 



[733, Abigail ^ 
1750, Mary Hill 
of John. 
m. Abigail Hawle 



sister of Maj. Aaron Hawley, w. of 
wid. of Phinehas. [Joel. 

wid. of . 

wid. of . 

m. of James. 



zu. of Isaac. 

m. Mabe . 

m. Anna . 

■w. of John B. 
IV. of Ebenezer. 
?ci. of John. 
Tvi'd. of William. 
wid. of Abiah. 
7V. of Samuel. 
IV. of Samuel, Jr. 
w, of Elijah, 
w. of Ezra. 



w. of Titus. 

wid. of 



7v. of Burr. 

mother of Samuel, wid. of ■ 

w. of Peter. 



Ttiid. of 



—1 89— 



Name, 



Year of 

Mention. 




Parrott, William 

Pool, .__ 

Plumb, John . 1829 

Parrott.'Sally 

Peet, Anna 

Parrott, Thomas — 

Rugier, Anthony 1732 

Rowlandson, Elizabeth 1733 

Ross, Sarah (Edwards) 

Rowland, Charity 

Ross, John 

Ross, Eulilia (Bartram) 

Raymond, Miss Betsey 

Risley, Ruth 

Ross, Sarah (Merrick) 

Ross, James Merricl< 

Roberlson, 1800 

Rose, Peter 

Royce, Rev. Stephen 

Rose, William 

Rose, .._ 1813 

Rockwell, Eliada 

Roberts, Mary_._ 

Robins, Capt 1827, 1829 

Robinson, _ 

Sherwood, Sarah 1693 

Seeley, Nathaniel l6g6, 1736 

Swillaway, Ha.ry,iafi.Nov. 8, 1696 

Stiles, Mary 1702? 1706, 1717 

Sherman, Benjamin ..1703, 1707 
Seelej', Hannah, i5rt/, 1703.. 1731 

Sherman, Mercy, ia/>. 1704- 

Seeley, Sarah, i^a/. 1704 .- - 

Sherman, Nathaniel 1705 

Sherman, James, dtr/i. 1707. 

Sherman, Bezaliel 1708 

Sturdevant, John 1709 

Squire, Jonathan 

Strong, Benaiah 1713 

Sherman, John 1714 

Silliman, Sarah 1714 

Smith, Abigail 1718 

Starr, Samuel 

Silliman, Robert, Jr.--I732, 1735 
Silliman, Robert, Sr.-. 1732, 1735 

Sturges, Jonathan 1732 

Stanley, Mary 

Seeley, 1733 

Sanford, Daniel . 1734 

Smith, Josiah .. 

Sanford, David 

Sherman, Peter 1736 

Starr, Elizabeth ._ 

Sterling, Mary 



1826 
1829 

1839, cs. 49 
1843, cr. 76 
1S51, a. 58 



1772 

1773 

1777 
1785, <?. 49 
1792, «, 
1794, <z. 

1799. <^- 52 
1799 



17 
36 



1801 
1802, <2. 47 
1S12, <z. 90 

1822, «. 24 
1826 

1837 



1786 



1737, <^- 23 



Remarks. 



w. of John B. 
w. of Thomas, 



[Robert. 
7vid. of Samuel Hawley, m. of Rev. 



■w. of Rev. Robert. 



dau. of David Wells, wid. of Timothy. 
w. of Rev. Robert, m. 1786. 
s. of Rev. Robert. 




»i. Benjamin Fayerweather, 
m. Hannah Odell. 



[»;. Lt, Wm, Bennett ; dau, of John, 
'dau. of Dea. David ; m. M. Sherwood. 
m. 1713, J, Sherwood ; dau. of James, 

m. Jemima , 

s. of Benj.; r/t. 1734, Sarah Cooke. 

»/. Mary Jackson. 

m. 1711, Bashia . 

m. Sarah Sherman. 

m. Samuel Hall, 

m. William Odell, 

m. 1731, Abigail Dibble. 



m. Ruth 



m. 1733, Peter Walker. 
w. of R . 



'"■ 1735, Prudence Kimberly. 
m. 1736, Patience Burrows, 
m. 1734, Martha French, 
/«, 1736, Joseph Webb. 
dan. of Jacob and Hannah. 



-1 90 — 



Name. 



Year of 
Mention. 



Seeley, Eunice 

Sherwood, Andrew 1749 

Silliman, Sarah .. 

Summers, Mary - 

Seeley, Betsey - .- 

Silliman, Ruth -. 

Sterling, Mary -- 

Summers, Comfort .. 

Sherman, Amos 

Seeley, Nathan 

Somers, Mary 1770 

Silliman, John 1771 

Silliman, Katharine 1771 

Sherwood, Gurdon 

Silliman, Sarah 

Sherman, Jonathan 

Stevens, Isaac 

Sherman, Isaac 

Seeley, Nehemiah 

Sherman, Eunice, i5<2/. 1751? 

Seeley, Michael 1784 

Shaylor, Capt. Timothy 

Seeley, Lieut. Nathaniel 

Seeley, Denton 1786, 1803 

Smith, John _ 

Summers, 

Sherwood, Abigail 

Silliman, Seth 

Smith, Josiah — 

Summers, Ann 

Smith, Prudence(Kimberly)? 

Seeley, Sarah 

Sherwood, Prudence 

Seeley, Hephzibah _ 

Strong, Anne 

Summers, Elijah 

Seeley, Truman 

Sherwood, William 

Seeley, Peninnah 

Seele)', Abigail 

Seeley, 

Seeley, 

Strong, Comfort -- 

Seele}', Isaac 1801 

Sturges, Anna (Knowles) 

Seamon, ._ 1802 

Sterling. Sherwood 

Strong, Sarah 

Strong, Comfort (Nichols) 

Sherman, Sterling 1805 

Summers, Rebecca 

Sherman, Anna (Kirtland). 1805 

Stephenson, I 1S05 

Summers, Aaron 

Sherman, Jemima _. 

Summers, Mary 

Strong, 




1745, a. 28 
1767, a. 47 

1751, (s. 50 
1756, a. 85 
1756, a:. 58 
1757, '?• 23 
1765 or 1772, a. 
1760, ^. 36 
1766, a:. 52 



. 63 



79 



1772, ^r. 33 

1773, IB. 48 

1775 
1776 

1777 
1781, 

1781 

1798 

1786 
1787, <?. 44 

1790 

1793 

1793 

1794, a:. 21 

1794, te. 37 
1794 

1797 
1797 
1797 

1795, rr. 19 
1798, ,c. 30 

1798 

1798 

iSoo 
1800, 

iSoo 

iSoi 
180I, «r. 20 

1801, a. 80 

1802 
1804, <s. 33 
1S04, a. 65 

1805 



1806, <?, 81 
1806 

1806, s. 25 

1807, (?. 76 



31 



Remarks. 



w. of Nathan. 

s. of Capt. John ? 

m. 1750, Noah Wilson. 

1st w. of Nathan. 

w. of James. 

■w. of Robert, Sr. ? 

dau. of Jacob. 

2d -£). of Nathan. 



■w. of Samuel. 



s. of John. 
■w, of Daniel. 



dati. of Elnathan ? 



m. Deborah 



w, of Elnathan. 

wid. of ■ . 

s. of Capt. Seth and Lois. 

m. Beulah . 

dau. of Elnathan. 



dau. of Michael. 



dau. of Michael. 
dau. of Joseph. 



s. of David. 



w. of Seth, Jr. 
wid. of Michael. 
■w. of Isaac. 
dau. of Joseph. 



2u. of Joseph. 
dau. of William. 
s. of Abijah, Esq. 
dau. of Joseph. 
w. of Joseph. 
s. of Capt. David. 

wid. of . 

w. of Sterling. 



m. Huldah Wakeley. 
wid. of Nathaniel ? 
w. of Abel. 
w. of Nehemiah, 



-191- 



Name. 




Silliman, Lois 

Silliman, Capt. Seth 

Sherman, Capt. David, Jr 

Summers, William 

Smith, Beulah 

Sherwood, Capt. David 

Seeley, Deborah 

Smith, 

Scofield, 1812, 1818 

Standish, John 1S13, 1816 

Seeley, Odell 1814 

Smith, Mary 

Sherwood, Zachariah 1815 

Sherwood, Charles 1818, 1840 

Smith, J. Stebbins 1819, 1825 

Squire, Samuel .. 

Staples, Martha 

Sterling, Sherman .. 

Seeley, Mar)' 

Seeley, Catharine 

Summers, Rhoda .. 

Sherman, Rebecca (French) .. 

Seeley, Michael 

Sherman, Jane .. 

Summers, 

Sherwood, Ephraira 1826 

Sherwood, Ethan .. 

Sherwood, Sally _. .. 

Sheppard, Doct. William.. .. 

Seeley, .. 

Summers, .. 

Sherman, .. 

Strong, Joshua 1829 

Strong, Tryphena (Whetmore) 

Sherwood, Lucetta 

Seeley, Mary 

Sherman, C. H 

Sterling, Anson . 

Summers, Anson 

Sherwood, Stephen 

Strong, Comfort -. 

Seeley, Jennette 

Sterling, David B 

Seeley, George B 

Summers, Ubana 

Sterling, Ann 

Sterling, Hannah 

Sterling, Feed Abijah 

Sterling, Sally 

Sterling, Capt, John 

Purney, Thomas 

rreadwelI,Martha, (^a/. 1702 

Fucker, Nehemiah 

Turney, Mary 

Treadwell, Stephen 

Ireadwell, Sarah 1753 



1807, ce. i)-i 

1808, ce. 67 
Dec. 1809, ce. 24, 

iSio, IS. 34 

1810, IS. 70 
iSii, a. 49 

1811, cB. 68 
1811 

1825, «. 35 

1815 



1819, ce. 74 

1820, 12. 61 
1820, ce. 34 

1822, a. Bl 

1823, (2. 18 
1823, CE. 36 

1825, CE. 70 

1826, <?. 70 

1826, CE. 20 
1826, CE. 74 

1826, CE. 51 
1826, CE. 44 

1827 

I82S 

1828, a. 45 
1829 

1829, CE. 56 
1831, ce. 35 
1835, CE. 24 

1838 

1835, ce. 44 

1836, ce. 39 

1837, <z. 89 
1841, CE. 77 
1850, m. 35 

1849 

1850 
1849, CE. 68 

1859 

1861 
1862, CE. 73 

1866 

1866 



1734 
1747, ce. 23 

1755. «. 44 



Remarks. 



w. of Capt. Seth. 

sea. s. of David 4th. 

■wid. of George ; wid. of Wm. Peet. 

wid. of Lt. Nathaniel. 
wid. of . 



wid. of ■ 



'Olid, of • 



w. of Ezra. 
dau. of James. 



wid. of Capt. David, 4th. 



w. of Isaac, Jr. 
■w. of Elnathan. 



w. of Ephraim. 



%v. of Munson. 
w. of David. 
wid. of Wheeler. 



wid. of John. 

dau. of Ruth and Joseph. 



2d w. of Joseph. 
w. of George B. 
s. of David and Deborah. 

dau. of Elnathan. [Deborah. 

w. of Moore ; dau. of David and 

s. of Abijah and Eunice. 

w. of F. Abijah. 

s. of David and Deborah. 

m. 1709, Abigail Wells. 

dau. of Samuel : m. 1721, Samuel 

[Smedley. 
m. 1732, Nathaniel Burr. 
m. 1 75 1, Sarah Wakeley. 
wid. of . 



-192 — 



Name. 



Year of 
Mention. 




Treadwell, Sarah 1770 

Tread well, - 

Treadwell, Josiah 1776 

Treadwell, 

Treadwell, David 1783 

Treadwell, — 

Treadwell, Jerusha 

Treadwell, Samuel 

Thompson, .. 

Treadwell, Elijah 1815 

Turnev, Silas iSig 

Tisdale, Dr. N... 1823, 1825 

Tisdale, Betsey ... - 

Treat, Madison A 

Thompson, Joseph .- 

Wolcott, Sarah 

Whitacus, Jonathan 1700 

Wheeler, Hannah, (^a/. 1703 

Wheeler, Hannah 1708 

Wakeman, Capt. John 1712 

Wheeler, David 

Weed, Jacob 

Wells, Mercy __ 

Wheeler, Anne 1731 

Wakeley, Prudence 1731 

Wakeley, Jacob 1732, 1736 

Wilson, Daniel 1732 

Wilson, Nathaniel 1732 

Wurden, Thomas 1732, 1733 

Wheeler, Judith Ann 

Wheeler, Jonathan 1732 

Walker, Peter 

Wheeler, Elizabeth 

Walker, Mary .-- 

Wells, Abigail. 

Wheeler, Lieut 1734 

Wakeley Zebulon 1734 

Webb, Joseph 

White, Rev. Ebenezer 

Wheeler, David 

Wilson, Noah -- 

Wells, Jedidiah 

Wells, David. 1751 

Wakeley, Sarah 

Wilson, Elizabeth 

Wheeler. Jabez 1751 

Wilson, Sarah? 

Wheeler, Sarah 1772, 1776 

Wheeler, Ephraim 

Wheeler, Ann.. 

Wilson, John, Jr 

Wheeler, Timothy 

Wakeley, Sarah 

Wakeley, Clark 

Wells, 

Wheeler, Zachariah 



Remarks. 



1776 
1776 
1798 
1782 

1788 

1793 

i8o[ 

180S, a. 47 



1824, iT. 42 

1831, a;. 24 

1838 

1703 



1731, a. 23 



1767, a:. 55 



1777 



I77I, CE. 26 

1774 
1775 

1776, cc. 29 

1776 
1781 
1788 
1788 
1789 



iv. of Hezekiah. 
w. of Samuel. 



w. of Samuel. 



I 



v. of Josiah. 
wid. of Samuel. 



w. of - 



of Dr. N. 



, i6g8. Rev. Charles Chauncey. 

[Chauncey. 
dau. of Samuel ; m. 1722, Robert 
wid. of . 

m. 1717, Esther Nichols. 
m. 1 718, Eleanor Frost. 

m. Samuel Cable. 

in. Joseph Edwards. 

m. 1735, Anne Trowbridge. 



m. 1732, Samuel Odell. 

m. 1733, Mary Stanley. 

m. 1733, Ezra Dibble. 

m. 1733, Serj't John Sherwood. 

m. 1733, Samuel Prince. 



m. 1736, Elizabeth Starr. 
m. 1736, Mrs. Mary Moss. 
m. 1749, Lois Chauncej'. 
m. 1750, Sarah Silliman. 
m. 1750, Line French. 
m. Ruth Burrows. 
m. 1751, Stephen Treadwell. 
»;. 1751, Thaddeus Bennett. 

w. of James. 

dau. of Benjamin ; m. Ezra Kirtland, 

[Jr. 
dau. of John. 
.!■. of Robert and Catharine. 

?(». of Lieut. Samuel. 

w. of David. 



—193— 



Name. 



Year of 
Mention. 



Wakelej', Jonathan 

Wakeley, Abel 

Wilson, Eleanor (Lacey) 

Wheeler. Abigail ? 

Wing, Charles 1796 

Wing, 

Whitmore, Robert W 1796 

Wheeler, Abigail (Odell?) 

Wakeley, Isaac 

Wakeley, Tabitha.-. 

Wheeler,Dorothy (Sherman) 

Waistcoat, Tiba 

Wheeler, Eunice 

Wells, Frederick 

Worden, Anna (Odell) 

Walker, Joseph 1805 

Wakeley, Mary - 

Woolsev, Maj. Benj. M 

Wilson,' Robert 

Wakeley, Sally 

Wells, Mehitable 

Wheeler, Samuel 

Wheeler, Tuttle 

Whiting, William 

Whiting, John 

Wagner, George 

Wakeley, Walker 

Whiting. Mary 

Whiting, 




Wilson, Eleanor 

Worden, William 1824 

Worden, Elmer.- 

Wells, Stephen - 

Wilson, Rhoda -. 

Woolsey, Hannah 

Wilson, Summers - 

Wakeley, Grace 

Wells, jedidiah 

Wells, Mary 

Wade, Stephen. 

Wakeley, Charles 

Wilson, Silliman 

Wells, Hannah 



Young, Joseph 

Young, Mary 

Young, Daniel 1797 

Young, Jesse 

Young, Daniel, Jr 1800 



87 



1790, ce. 47 

1793 
1795, «■ 27 

1795 

1796 

1798, a. 40 

1798 

1 800 
1800, a. 

1800 

1S04 

1804 

1805 

1809, a. 78 
1813, ce. 55 

1813, ce. 57 
1813 

1814, cs. 90 
tSig, a. 58 

1820 

1821, a. 57 

1822, cs. 73 
1822 
1823 

1823, a;. 74 
1S24 
1824 

1831, a. 48 

1824, ce. 28 

1825, ce. 70 
1825, ce. 57 

1825, ce. 64 

1826, ce. 22 

1826, ce. 74 

1827, ce. 75 
1827. ce. 69 
1827, IS. 25 
1827, ce. 35 
1833, ce. 68 
1838, ce. 84 

1785 
1786 
1800 
1798 
1803 



Remarks. 



dau. of Benjamin ; iv. of Amos. 
■w. of Hezekiah. 



w. of Charles. 
wid. of William ? 



■wid, of . 

wid. of John ; dau. of Dea. David. 



dau. of Samuel ; w. of Capt. Wra. 



wid. of John. 
w. of Samuel. 



nt. Mary ■ 
•wid. of — 



wid. of Stephen. 



dau. of Jedidiah. 
wid. of . 



13 



-'94- 



NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE PARISH, 

Pew-holders and others not knoivn to be Church Members, tnentiotied in the 
records of the First Society of Bridgeport, Conn., i6pj to iSp^. 

"Undoubtedly besides these members in full communion, the other heads of 
families in the settlement were most or all of them associated with the church 
under 'the half-way covenant,' conformably to the practice of the churches of the 
colony generally, at that time — a practice continued in this church until within the 
present century." — Palmer's Hist. First Church. 



Names, Year of Mention, j 

Angevine, Zachariah — 1754 

(janitor 1736), salary £'i. lOs. 40'., 

d. 1779. I 

Abell. Elijah 1788 

Allen, James, 2d .1811, 1814 

Adams, A. H 1820 1 

Allen, Justus, </. 1863, (£. 63. ! 

Atwater, Merritt 1846 

Andrews, E 1846 

Ames. Dyer 1856, 1857 

Ainsley, J 1868 

Allen, Frank C._ 1879, 1882 

Anderson, John Joseph i8go 

Burr, Nathaniel, Sr .- 1698 

Bennett, Samuel 1706 ; 

Beardsley, Sarah 1710 

Bennett, John 1712 

bap. 1704, s. of James and Sarah. 

Burton, John 1748 ' 

Bennett, Nehemiah 1754 

Beers, Nathaniel 1754 

Burr, James 1754 

Burton, Solomon 1748, 1754 

Bennett, Capt. Thaddeus 1754 

d. after 1777, m. Elizabeth Wil- j 

son 1751. 
Burr, Justus. 1765 

m. Hephzibah Nichols ; d. 1766, a:. 

32, s. of Col. John 

Beardsley, Andrew 1767 

Burr, Ozias _ 1770 

d. 1836 tt. 98, s. of Col. John. ' 

Bangs, Lemuel -177°. 1786 ' 

Burroughs, Edward 1771. I797 

tiafi. 1732, s. of Stephen. 
Burroughs, Capt. Stephen 1772 

b. 1729, d. 1817, «. 88? 

Burritt, Elijah, i/. 1841, ,». 98 1776 

Booth, Samuel 1778, 1789 

Beardsley, Ensign Abijah, liap. 1750, 

d. 1789, ir. 40, m. Drusilla,i/(Z«. of 

David Sherman, she d. 1839, <s. 

87 ; J. of Robert. | 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Brothwell, Benjamin, s. of Joseph 1788 

Benedict, Thaddeus, rf. 1799, te. 51 1796 

Botsford, Francis?. -I797i 1800 

Benedict, William 1803 

Burroughs, Edmund (Edward ?) 1803 

Barker, Esq 1804 

Benedict, Jesse, d. 1815 1804 

Backus, Simon 1808 

Burroughs, Capt. Stephen, Jr. ._I797, 1S24 

Benjamin, Barzillai 180S 

Beardsley, Anson _. 1808 

Beach, Caleb i8og 

Baldwin, Simeon 1809 

Beach, Barnum i8lo, 1S17 

Brooks, Joseph- 1810 

Blackman, Nathan 1810 

Burr. Henry, d. 1822, <j. 32 1S14 

Benjamin, Meigs 1S14 

Beard, Daniel 18:5 

Bouton, Chauncey 1818, 1S24 

Baldwin. Capt. Eliadia 1815, 1821 

Beardsley, Abijah 1820, 1850 

Booth, Roswell 1822 

Baldwin, Brinsmade 1823 

Benedict, E. B 1823 

Bradley, Enos 1824 

Black, Alexander 1826, 1835 

Bassett. Freeman C. 1827, 1856 

Bassett, James 1828 

Bartram. Capt. Thomas 1834, 1S37 

Betts, Coley E 1834 

Brooks, Cornelius 1834 

Bunnell, William 1834 

Botsford, Cyrus 1835 

Bartlett, Louisa 1835 

Bray, Judson 1835 

Beach. Sheldon 1840 

Burr, Henry -. 1840 

Beers, Widow 1840, 1844 

Beach, Mary (Widow) 1841, 1S50 

Barnum, Philo F 1844, 185C 

Blake, Edgar 1844 

Burr, Horace , 1850 

Billings, John L.. 1856, 1869 



-195- 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Beardslev, Henry N 1856, 1S75 

Blunt, W... 1856 

Birdseye, E. 2d. 1856 

Benham, J. H. ...1856, 1S57 

Blank, A. Edward 1856, 1861 

Baker, Dr. E 1857, 1863 

Botsford, H. H 1857, i86t 

Birdseye, N. D 1S57 

Beach, George E 1861, i86g 

Bartlett, T.. 1861 

Barker, R. R - _. 1863 

Brooks, Mrs. Eunice 1863 

Blakeman, B 1863 

Brooks, \V. E 1874 

Beach, John M 1874 

Banks, Edwin 1S74 

Burton, Silas 1874 

Bullock, J. M. -1874, 1875 

Blush W. C, Janitor 1884, 1886 

Birdseye, Frank 18S6 

Burr, Ebenezer. 1886 

Barri, John A _. 18S6 

BuUard, W. H 18S6, 1889 

Brooks, Mrs. E. E i88g 

Briggs, Warren R 1890 

Banks, John W. 1894 

Curtis, Joseph . 1706 

Cooper, Robert 1706 

Chambers, Thomas 1716, 1719 

Crawford, Quintin 171 3, 1719 

Cooke, Esther .- 1724 

Cooke, John, b. 1715, d. 1813, s. of 

Rev. Samuel _ 

Cable, Widow Rebecca, 1771 

d. 1799.1?. So, wid. of Andrew. 

Chapman, Joshua iSoi 

Couch, Nash 1809 

Cooke, Joseph P.. 1S09 

Clark, Joseph ...1810, 1825 

Curtiss, Matthew 1811 

Curtiss, Eli iSii 

Crocker, John A 1814 

Clark, Eliza 1815 

Cable, Richard - - 1819 

Curtiss, Andrew 1824 

Cooke, Horace __ _ 1S34 

Crane, Ambrose. 1844, 1846 

Chesney, Samuel M 1850, 1856 

Clark, Elijah 1856, 1S57 

Chapin, Walter E 1861 

Childs, C. M 1S68 

Cogswell, Henry C 1853 

Canfield, Charles Stewart 1879 

Corbusier, A. B 18S6 

Chittenden, E. D 1886 

Dickinson, Nathaniel 1754 

DeForest, Charles 1824 

Davis, S. A... 1850 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Dunlap, J. J 1856, 1868 

DeMartin, J 1856 

Davenport, Daniel 1884 

DeForest, Marcus 1875 

Edwards, Isaac 1788 

Eaton. William 1795, 1844 

Ells. Nathaniel 1798 

Edmonds, William 1809 

Edgerton, Eleazar i8ir, 1835 

Eells, Waterman 1815 

Edwards, Benjamin 1840 1849? 

Ellis, M. N 1868 

Elliott, A .1868, 1874 

Edmonds, George B... 1886 

Fairchild, Zacharj' 1698, 1701 

Fairchild, Hannah, Jr 1697, 1706 

Fairchild, Ebenezer 1710 

French, Ebenezer 1732, 1754 

bap. 1699, s. of Samuel. 

Fairchild, Stephen 1755 

Fairchild, Ephraim 1756 

French, Benoni 1782 

s. of Samuel, d. 1823, a. 85. 
French. Gamaliel 1754, 1788 

bap. 1706? d. 1783. 
French, Gamaliel, jr., d. 1828, a. 72.. 1788? 
French, Samuel 1801 

bap. 1734, J. of Ebenezer? 

French. Capt. Joseph 1809, 1838 

Farnam, Samuel 1810 

French, William. ..1818, 1845, 1857 

French, James R., </. 1835, «. 83.-1803, 1821 

French, Simeon . 1828 

French, Wheeler, Jr., d. 1879. 

Fayerweather, William 1843 

Ferrin, Sidney 1847 

Fowler, Anderson. 1850 

Fayerweather, G. M. 1856 

Fayerweather, Betsey . 1857 

Fuller, John E 1868 

Fairchild, Daniel. 1886 

Gregory, Enoch 1733, 1753 

bap. 1707, d. lltiiy s. of Samuel. 

Gregory, Seth.. ...1760, 1772 

Gregory, Thaddeus, Jr 1767, 1798 

Grev, Ruel 1785, 1788 

Gibbs, David i8n 

Gill, Charles 1825 

Griffith, Theodore 1842 

Gray, James W ...1856, 1857 

Glenn; M 1868 

Gilbert, 1874 

Griswold, George W 1893 

Hawley, Samuel 1700, 1723 

Hendricks, Samuel 1704 

Hendricks, Phebe 1704 



-196- 



Names, Year of Mention. 

Hall, Isaac, Sr -1695, 1706, 1712? 

Hawley, Thomas, Jr 1706 

Hall, Jonathan 1706, 1717 

Hull, Hannah. 1706 

Hubbell, Joseph 1706, 1732 

hap. 1702, d. bef. 1778. 

Hinman, Edward - 1704, 1716 

Hall, James_ 1710 

Hall, Isaac, Jr -1695, 1711 

Hubbell, Samuel, Jr. ._ -1713, 1719 

Hutchinson, Aaron 1747 

Hawley, Samuel, d. 1749, '«"• 3' 1748 

Hall, Ebenezer, d. after 1778 ---1749, 1759 

Holberton, Widow Mary, d. 178S 1752 

Hubbell, Capt. Gershom 1754, 1758 

Hubbell, Nehemiah 1750, 1759 

Hubbell, Benjamin 1761 

hap. 1111, d. 1793, ir. 76, /. of John ? 

or Dea. Richard, Jr. 
Hubbell, Gideon 1762, 1785 

bap. 1131, d. 1806, ff. 76, s. of 

Capt. Daniel. 
Hawley, Maj. Aaron 1764, 1796 

d. 1803. U-. 63. 

Hunt, Isaac, d. 1770 1764 

Hall, John 1764 

iap. 1111I d. 1791, s. of John ? 
Hawley, Woolcot 1765, 1795 

d. 1799, '^. 62, wife d. 1799. 

Hawley, Ezra, d. 1796, tr. 50 1769 

Hawley, Thomas 1776 

hap. 1735? d. 1797, a. 59, s. of 

Ezra? 

Hubbell, Abraham, d. 1783 1779 

Hubbell, Capt. Amos 1775 

First Warden of the Borough, d. 

July 2, iSoi, I?. 55, s. of Richard, 



Names. 



Year of Mention 

1818 

1821 

1821 



Hubbell, Capt. Asa ..- 

d. July 5, 1801, a: 55. 
Hubbell, James 

d. 1827, ir. 70? J-, of Aaron? 

Hubbell, Capt. Salmon 

Hubbell, Amos, Jr., d. 1798, ic. 18 ... 

Hawley, Amos 

Hubbell, John, d. 1808, a:. 63 

Hawley, Joseph — 

Hubbell, Ezra, d. 1801. 

Hubbell, Thaddeus 1794, 

Hawley, Ebenezer 1776. 

Ha%vley, Capt. Samuel ..1792, 

hap. 1751, (/. 1821, J. of Ezra, 

Hull. W. L. (W. B.?) -1806, 

Hubbell, Onesimus ._ 

hap. 1732? 1755? J-. of Joseph or 

Daniel. 
Hubbell, Charles Benj., 1810,1825,1834 

s. of Amos. 

Hubbell, Nathaniel 1 

Hubbell, Benjamin 



1788 

1 791 

179I 
1797 
1797 
1799 
1 800 

1802 
1803 
1805 

1808 
iSog 



1869 

1811 

1811 



Hubbell, Lemuel 

Hatch, Capt. Daniel 

Hubbell, David, Jr.,</. 1830, .J. 65. 181 

Hubbell, Solomon 1823 

Hawley, Munson 1824 

Hubbell, Alfred. 1826, 1827 

Hamlin, Alanson 1827, 1834 

Hubbell, Ale.xander 1835 

Humiston, Nathaniel 1835 

Higgins, Polly 1837 

Hathaway, Capt. 1838, 1841 

Hawley, Gurdon '839, 1S45 

Hutchins, Thomas '839, 1840 

Hubbell, Merritt 1839, 1840 

Higgins, Amos 1844, i86i 

Hubbell, Edward 1847 

Hubbell, George A 1S47 

Hubbell, David .._ 1850 

Hopkins, L. M 1S50 

Hall, C. B 1S50 

Hall, Polly J 1856, 1857 

Hopkins, Alfred, d. 1894 1856 

Hubbell, George W 1S57 

Hubbell, Laura i8fci, 1875 

Hubbell, George H 1868, 1S69 

House, Henry A 1668 

Hawley, Marcus C 1868 

Horr, William L -. 1868 

House, James A 1 868 

Hill,W. B.._ 1874 

Hunter, Samuel S. 1874 

Hall, Mrs. S. B .._ 1S74 

Hall, F. S 1S75 

Hyde, Miss Mary 1882 

Hawley, Jane M 1886 

Hubbell, Mrs. George H 1886, 1893 

Hughes, Frank J 1S86 

Hart, W. E. 1SS8 

Havens, George O 1889 

Hopson, William R. 1S93 

Hawley, Ale.xander, 1893 

Ives, Francis, d. Jan. 27, 1895, <?. 77.. 1850 



Jackson, Daniel 1708, 

Jackson, Samuel iC>95. 

Judson, John 

Jackson, Isaac 

hap. 1712, d. 1777? s. of Henry. 

Jennings, Elijah - 

Jennings, Eliphalet.. 

</. 1839, ir. 85, m. Sarah, dau. of 
Rev. Robert Ross. 

j Judson, Harry — 

I Jennings, Robert R.,s. of Eliphalet.. 

Judson, Jeremiah -1837, 

Johnson, George 1 840, 

Jameson, G 

Judson, Mrs. F. J 

Joy, Misses 



1734 
1709 
1710 
1746 

17S8 
1795 



1828 
1S28 
1846 
1841 
186S 
1874 
1887 



-197— 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Kiniberh', Eleazar i^gg 

Kind, Arthur 1700 

Knapp, Mary, d. Nov. 23 1711 

Kirtland, Ezra 1759. 1772, 1790 

»i. Olive, dau. of Zabulon Wake- 
ley, d. 1800, iz. 70. 

Knapp, James, d. 1798, a. 74 1778 

Kellogg, Jervis 1800 

Kirtland, Wheeler .- 1803 

King, William 1812 

Knapp, Ephraim, d. 1S31 1813, 1825 

Knapp. Joseph - 1828, 1847 

Kimball, M. _. 1843 

Kiefer. lacob L ._l856, 1857 

Kellogg". W. F 1856 

Keeler. Frank 1874, 1875 

Kensett. Mrs. Sarah A 1874 

Keeler, Walter F 1875 

Knapp, Howard H 1890 

Leads, Cary 1708 

Lane, Charles 1710 

Lane, Johannah 1710 

Loring. Xehemiah _ 1714 

Lacey, David, bap. 1753, d. 1803, s. of 

John. 

Lacey, Edward, Jr... 1750, 1755 

Lamson, Joseph '745, 1755 

d. 1773, Missionary- Ch. of Eng. 

Lacey, Widow Hannah i759 

Lacey. Benjamin, d. 17S4, a. 45.1765, 1772 

Lyons, Robert 1789 

Lewis, Abel 1791 

Lacey, Eleazar 1795, 1S25 

Lewis, Robert _ 1797 

Lockwood, Samuel 1799 

Lewis, Daniel, m. Hulda 1814 

Lewis, Roswell, 1820 

Linsley, Benjamin D. 1823 

Lyon, Levi 1823, 1824, 1843 

Lewis, Joseph C 1828, 1835 

Lane, Joseph 1844, 1845 

Lyon, William H. 1850 

Lewis, William A 1S56, r857 

Lewis, E. A 1&56 

LaMonte, Mrs 1857 

Lindley, N. H 1861, 1863 

Livingston, A. P 1861 

Lewis, Miss _ 1861 

Little, J.. 1S68 

Lewis, W. W. 1S74 

Lewis, H. William, janitor 1882 

Lvon, Miss Louise 1886 

Lyon, F. C 1886 

Lockwood, Frederick J. 18S6, 1894 

Lyon, Mrs. E. H 1886, 1S93 

Lewis, Mrs. C. B 1889 

Lyon, Willis S. 1892, 1893 

Maclen, Jacob 1700 

Morehouse, David 1707 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Morehouse, Samuel, Sr 1708, 1714 

Mitchell, Widow 1759 

Messer, Daniel 1798 

Mosher, Daniel S. 1799 

Morehouse, Edward 1805 

Munn, Isaac, d. 1817, te. 37 1S06 

May, Major Henr)' 1808, 1814, 1829 

Marvine. Matthew 1809 

May, Joseph 1810, 1828 

May, Sylvester... 1822, 1826 

Munson, Sherlock, d. 1825, a. 27. 

Moore, Luther 1827 

Matthews, or Martha, Titus C.-.1827, 1S56 

Milne, Robert 1834, 1845 

Merhwal, Oliver.. 1835 

Messerole, J. B... 1840, 1842 

Morris, Dwight .1841, 1894 

Moore, Edward 1841, 1843, 1S44 

McGrath, William ...1846, 1850 

Marsh, Edgar ._ 1850 

McGregor, Richard 1850 

McNeil, John 1852 

Morgan, George 1857, 1863 

Murph)', N. L 1863 

Martini Mrs 1S68 

Morris, John 1875 

Mason, Frederick A. 1S86, 1891 

Middlebrook, Mrs. Stiles M 1SS6 

Meeker, Edward F 1893 

Manchester, J. A., janitor 1893 

McEwen, Mrs.. 1S93. 1894 

Nickleson, James 1702 

Nichols, Richard 1708, 1732 

Nichols, Ezra 1762 

Nichols, Silas ._ 1762 

Nichols, John, d. 1785 1780 

Nichols, John, Jr., d. 1801, <?. 57 1783 

Nichols, Elijah... 1808 

Nichols, Charles L 1824, 1828 

Norman, Peter, d. 1894 1843, 1857 

Noyes, William 1850 

Nickerson, Samuel 1S63 

Nichols, C. L 1868 

Near, John N._ 1870 

Nash, Andrew E 1870, 1880 

Norton, Dr 1874 

Nash, Jesse S.. 1S70 

Nichols, Walter 1886 

Nettleton, W. A 1886 

Noble, George B 1890 

Odell, Nehemiah Smith 1765 

baf. 1733. d. 1772, s. of William. 
Odell, John, *(7/. 1710? j. of Samuel? 1779 

Oviatt,'Daniel B 1810 

Olmstead, Ashbel, d. 1825, a. 42 1810 

Oram, James D 1839 

Olmstead, George 1850 

Orcutt, Rev. Samuel - 1888 



-198— 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Phippenj', Joseph 1702, 1705 

Patchen, Samuel, d. 1776 1731, 1755 

Feet, Daniel 1762 

Patterson, Andrew -1777. '779 

Peet, William 178S, 1811 

Peet, Elijah 1796 

d. 1841, «. 81, m. Anna . 

Peabody, William H., (/. 1832 1798 

Porter, Samuel 1804, 1805, 1838 

m. Abiah Hubbell. 

Peck, Ira 1809, 1818, 1846 

Pilgrim, Benjamin 1826 

Perry, Burr _. 1826 

Pixley, Agur __ 1827 

Porter, Edwin ..1827, 1829 

Piatt, Moses 1838, 1863 

Pearsall, Daniel 1839, 1840 

Peck, Eliza.. 1838, 1840 

Pearsall, Mrs 1841 

Place, Benajah 1842, 1843 

Peck, David K., </. 1894 1843 

Preston, James 1849 

Piatt, Miss _. 1850 

Peet, Orville H _. 1850 

Prindle, I. H 1850 

Patterson, 3. C. 1856 

Peet, Charles H 1856 

Pettit, Isaac 1857, 186S 

Patchin. William T _..i86i, 1863 

Perry, William H .._ 1861, 1863 

Pitis, Philander, janitor 1858 

Painter, William 1863 

Parmlee, Eleazar __i874, 1875 

Parrott, Frederick W., 2d 1880 

Parker, Mrs. E. M _ 1882, 1884 

Plumb, Hanford C 18S6 

Phillips, Dr. A. N 1886 

Parrott, Harry 1893 

Rogers, William (schoolmaster) 1711 

Rowland, Edmond__ 1759 

Ripley, Hezeklah _ 180S, 1810 

Roberts, William, Jr.. 1810 

Rowland, Sherman 1814 

Raymond, Hawley S 1837 

Rood, Edwin 1840, 1844 

Rowland, George M _ 1868 

Rand, C. K.. 1872, 1874 

Rogers, Noah 1875 

Richardson, George W. 1886 

Rockwell, William G 1889 

Silliman, David i6g8 

San lord, Elnathan i6g8 

Squier, Samuel 1698 

Seeley, John 1697. 1707 

Sherman, Matthew, Jr. 1703 

Summers, Thomas 17 10 

Sherman, Capt. David, Jr., .r. of Capt. 
David, 3d. m. Mary Sterling, dati. 



Names. Year of Mention. 

of Stephen and Eunice (Sum- 
mers,) d. 1771, a. 35, she d. 1765, 

ce. 25. 
Summers, Daniel 1745, 1754 

7)1. Eunice , d. 1789? 

Summers, Jabez, d. 1801, a. 80,. .1746, 1750 

Sherwood, Thomas ..1750, 1753 

Sanford, Ebenezer 1757 

Sterling, Sergt. Stephen 1754, 1758 

s. of Jacob and Hannah Odell 

(Seeley), d. 1793, re. 81, m. Eunice 

Summers. 

Sherman, Roger 1761 

Sherwood, David 1762 

hap. 1734, d. 1763, s. of Nathaniel. 
Seeley, Hezekiah 1763 

m. 1750, Johannah Beardslej-. 

Sherwood, Samuel, Jr 1765 

Sherwood, Samuel, 3d. 1766 

Sanford. Ezekiel 1766 

Seeley, Elnathan 176S, 1795 

Seeley, Seth, Jr 1769, 1772, iSoo 

Sterling, Capt. Abijah 1767, 1795 

m. Esther i/i;/*. of Nathaniel Sher- 
wood, s. of Stephen and Eunice 

(Summers,) d. 1802, a:. 56. 
Smith, Jonathan, d. 1810, a. 72. .1775, 1781 
Seeley, Ezra 1775 

m. Mary , d. 1827, a. 81. 

Sayre, John, Missionary Ch. of Eng.. 1775 

Sherman. Thomas 1776 

Sherwood, Capt. Samuel, 2d '779 

hap. 1732, </. 1S02, a. 71, .f. of 

Nathaniel. 
Sterling, Stephen, Jr 17S2 

bap. 1754, </. 1797, a. 43. 
Sherman, Capt. David, 4th 1783 

s. of Capt. D. 3d, d. August 22, 
j iSio, a. 55. 

! Summers, Aaron, (/. 1826, (?. 82? 1783 

I Summers, Samuel 1770, 17S5 

! d. iSio, <z. 74. m. Mary . 

i Summers, Abijah 1785, 1788 

Sherman, Ebenezer 17S9, 1S06 

.f. of Elnathan, d. 1819, a. 62. 
: Sherwood, Philemon 1792, 1799 

w. H ephzibah, aisa. of Justus Bu rr, 
j d. 1S35, a. 76. 

Stevenson, TertuUiis, ?«. Sarah 1797 

, Sturgis, Levi 1799 

j Sterling, Sherman _ 1799 

Sherwood, David, i/. 1826,1?. 72.. 179S, 1799 
Sterling, Sherwood i799. 1866 

s. of David and Deborah. 
Strong, John 1801, 1821 

s. of Joseph, d. 1822, <x. 54. 

Scofield, Jesse 1802 

Sherman, Capt. Stephen 1803 

Summers, Elnathan 1793. 1803, 1826? 

d. 1S31, a:. 85. 



—199— 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Seeley, Jesse, d. 1822, ce. 39.. 1806 

Southward, Robert 1808 

Sherman, Abijah iSoS 

d. 1831, ce. 65, s. of Elnathan. 

Sill i man, Levi 1808 

Sherman, Widow Mary 1808 

Seeley, James ,..1811, 1823 

Shepard, Charles 1815 

Skinner, Nathaniel L 1815, 1825 

d. 1826, CE. 40. 

Symes, Robert 1S18 

Snow, John l8ig 

Sherman, Ira, .r. of Silas ..1820, 1836, 1868 

Sturges, Peter 1S24 

Stillman, Benjamin 1834 

Seeley, D. V 1835 

Sterling, David 1837, 1839 

Summers, David 1837, 1838 

Scott, Albert .._ 1839 

Stevenson, William G... --1841, 1880 

Sterling, David, Jr 1842 

Stevens, John 1844 

Sanford, Daniel 1845 

Stowe, Jirah ...1845, 1846 

Solly, George 1847 

Smith, Chauncey 1850, 1857 

Stevens, Mrs. Henry 1850 

Smith, Aaron B 1850 

Sterling, Daniel H 1850, 1876 

Sherwood, Mary 1856, 1863 

Stillman, Mrs. W 1856, :86i 

Spooner, Clapp 1856, 1863 

Sterling, Woolsey G. .- 1856, 1863 

Sherman, Starr 1857 

Squire, Henry W 1S61 

Sharp, Jacob 1861 

Sherwood, Charles P 1861 

Sanborn, Anson 1S61 

Sturdevant, Henry N. 1S63 

Stevens, J. G 186S 

Stillman, William M 1868, 1875 

b. 1820, d. 1891. 

St. John, G. A 1868 

Sherwood, William 186S 

Sterling, Julian H 1870 

Sibley, John L. B --1870, 1880 

Sherwood, David W 1873, 1875 

Stevens, C. H 1874 

Sterling, John H 1870, 1880 

Sprague, Arthur J 18S6 

Shattuck, M. L. P... 1888 

Smith, William E 1890 

Sawyer, Walter W 1893 

Stevens, Mrs. H. W 1893 

Taylor, Jonathan 1703 

Treadwell, Joshua 1709, 1716 

Treadwell, David.. 1724 

bap. i6g8, s. of Samuel. 
Taylor, Baruch, ^. 1782 1776 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Tweedy, Reuben . 1793, I79S 

Treadwell, Robert 1804 

Tuttle, Johnson iSio, 1826 

Tuite, John 1811 

Thorp, Ephraim i8n 

Thorp, Beers 1815 

Thompson, Lewis 1819 

Treat. Isaac 1825 

Treadwell, David 1828 

Taylor, O. P 1845, 1850 

Treat. Amos S., d. 1886 1861, 1880 

Trubee, William E 1863 

Trulock, Mrs. Amanda 1868 

Turney, Mrs. S. A 1S68 

Thompson, William, janitor - 1890 

UfFord, David, (Z, 1820.. :8i9 

VanSycle, Lewis 1874, 1875 

Wilcox. Jacob 1700 

Whelply, Joseph 1704 

Wakeman. John 1706 

Wheeler, Ephraim 1697, 1707 

Wheeler, John 1747, 1775 

bap. 1710, d. 1800, ce. 87, m. Doro- 
thy , who d. 1790; s. of Dr. 

John, the schoolmaster. 

Wakeley, Jonathan, Jr. 1732, 1749 

bap. 1706, (/. iSoo? 

Wakeley, Capt. Samuel 1759 

bap. 171 1 ? (/. 1782, s. of Joseph ? 

Wheeler, Hezekiah 1766, 1795 

bap. 1732, in. Abigail , d. l8og, 

a. 86, s. of Timothy. 

Whittemore, Samuel ...1798, 1815 

Wetmore, Robert W 1800 

Woodward, Thomas 1808 

Whiting, Samuel, </. 1824, «. 42. 1809 

Wordin, Thomas Cook 1809, 1852 

b. 17S7, J-, of William, Jr. 

Winton, Maj. James 1811, 1814? 

Wheeler, Ira B 1811, 1843 

Wheeler, Tuttle 1815 

Wheeler, Daniel O 181S 

Wetmore, Thomas — 1S19 

Wheeler, Benjamin 1823, 1856 

Wheeler, Ezra 1811, 1823 

Wallis, Abijah 1S23 

Wood, Joseph 1826 

Willard, 1826 

Wicke.s, Capt. E 1834 

Wheeler, David 1835, 1856 

Woodruff, T. 1837, 1840 

Wordin, Samuel W. - 1S37 

Wilson, Mrs 1842, 1S49 

Wilmot, Alexander 1842 

Wells, Edwin 1844 

Weed, Joseph B 1844, 1856 

Wood, Sherman 1845, 1846 



-200 — 



Names. Year of Mention. 

Weed, Granville 1850 

Wales, Henry. 1856, 1857 

Walling, T. C 185b 

Wheeler, Ezra 1856, 1857 

Wheeler, Mrs. Ira B 1856, 1857 

Wakeley, Sidney L." 1857 

Wheeler, Hannah - 1856 

Wheeler, Mrs. C. B 1863 

Wales, Salem H 1863 

Woodburn, 1863 

Wooster, 1S67 



Names. Year of Mention. 

White, E. P 1S68 

Wheaton, George E. 1868, 1876 

Wood, E. S 1868 

Whitney, John D.. 1870 

Waldo, George C. 1874 

Wilmot, C. E 1882, 1884 

Wilson, Dr. F. M 1886, 1S93 

Whitney, F. Archibald 1889 

Young, Isaac 17S8 

Young, Isaac L. 1S42 



-20I- 



FULL LIST OF MEMBERS 

Received since the beginning of Mr. Waterman's ministry. 

L. Letter. P. Profession. R.C. Renewed Covenant, dism. Dismissed, rem. Removed. 

exc. Excommunicated, m. Married, w. Wife. wid. Widow. 

s. Son. dau. Daughter, a. Age. 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Ldams, Hiram 1S13 L. exc. 1828 

Ltwell, Richard __ 1823 

itwell, Anna 1823 L. 

Lllen, Dally. 

illen, Dr. Addis. 1830 

Ltwell, Charles 1831 I 1836 

itkinson, Sarah _ 1831 I dism. 

Ltwell, Ruth Ann 1831 dism, 

irmstrong, Clarissa 

indrus. Susan 1832 .. 

lymar, Harriet 1840: 

L.dair, Margaret 

indrew, Jane 1841 dism. 

imes, Mary E 1855 P. 1866 

imes, Charlotte L 1857 P. 1862 

lllen, Stephen T 1858 P. 

inderson, Joseph 

lllen, Virginia H.. 1858 P. 

inderson, Emily W. (Dyer) 185S P. 

lyres, Sarah C. _. i85o P. 

lyres, Cornelius H 

idams. Miss Mary L. 1861 | 1868 

irmstrong, Eunice 1863 L.I 

,yres, Esther M 1864 P. dism. 

.yres, Clorinda B 1864 L 

itwater, Dr. David F 1864 L. 1883 

.twater, Sarah 1864 L. 1883 

.twater, Mary M. __ 1864 P., 18S8 

.yres, Lewis B 1S64 L.j 

.yres, Charles L 1S64 P.I 

.Idrich, Mahala W 1866 L.] 1882 

.Idrich, Wade H 

.bernethy, Elisha S.. 

.bernethy, Charlotte M 1868 L. 

.twater, Charles 1874 P. 1882 

.Ivord, Adelaide 1872 L.I 1S8S 

.yres, Mary Cornelia 1876 P. 

.dams, Hannah Maria (Hunt).. 1878 L 

.ndrews, Caroline (M3-gatt) 1884 L., 

.bernethy, Willard P i88g L 

.nderson, Percy Paul 1890 P. 

.nderson, Clarence D 1892 P 



urroughs, Edward bef. July 1813 R.C, 

urroughs, Elizabeth ..bef. July 1813 R.C, 



1833, (Z. 67 

1826 
1833 



from Danbury. 



\W. of Richard ; fr. Huntington. 
'wid. of . 



1834 



Missionary to Sandwich Is. 



m. D. B. Hatch, Jr. 
m. Charles Foote, Jr. 



1872, <r. 42 

1878 \wid. of Stephen T. 

jwi'i/. of John J. 

jii/. of Cornelius H. 



\m. Cornelius C. Bulkley. 

1864, «. 75 wid. of Tracy. 

III. Levi Toucey. 

ru>. of Lewis B. 



w. of Dr. D. F. 
dau. of Dr. D. F. 



s. of Lewis B. 
w. of Wade H. 



1869, iz. 60 w. of Elisha S. 
j.f. of Dr. D. F. 

w. of Nelson. 
'dan. of Cornelius H. 
,wid. of John. 

«'. of Frank S. 
\s. of John. 
jj-. of John J. 

s. of John J. 



1891 



w. of Edward. 



— 202- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission, 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Backus, Simon 

Backus, Alice 

Burroughs, Polly. 
Beach, Barnum .. 
Beach, Betsej' 

Bartlett, John 



Bartlett, Sally 

Beach, Caleb 

Beach, Agur 

Beach, Mary 

Booth, Roswell _ 

Booth, Minerva 

Backus, Huldah 

Baldwin, Elizabeth 

Baldwin, Josiah Brinsmade. 

Backus, Eunice Alice 

Burroughs, Pamela 

Burroughs, Stephen, 2d 

Backus, Oswald 



Bussy, Enos 

Benedict, Epenetus 

Boughton, Nathaniel 

Benedict, Ann 

Beardsley, Sally 

Benedict, Hulda 

Blake. Polly 

Beard, Spencer Field 

Burroughs, Thankful 

Beach, Elizabeth 

Brisco, Nathan 

Benedict, Sarah 

Brown, Elizabeth D 

Beardsley, Syrena 

Benton, Priscilla 

Benjamin, Mary 

Baldwin, Nathan 

Bulkley, John William 

Baldwin, Eliza.- 

Baldwin. Charlotte 

Bouton.John Mills...- 

Burr. William -. 

Burr, Lewis 

Brooks, John, Jr. 

Baldwin, Jennett Augusta. 

Bussey, Mary 

Brooks, Maria 

Burr, Alisia 

Brooks, Jannett 

Burrows, Maria 

Baldwin, Lyman 

Baldwin, Esther 

Benedict, Manson 

Burr Ann 

Bradley, Elizabeth 



Sog R,C, 
809 R.C, 
811 R.C. 
813 R.C, 

813 R.C. 

814 R.C. 

815 P. 

814 R.C, 

815 P, 
S15R.C, 
819 R.C. 
Big P, 
824 R.C, 
824 R.C, 

807 

811 

813 .-- 

814 

814 

815 .... 
815 P. 
838 L, 
815 --- 
815 .— 
815--. 

815 

815 -.- 
815 — - 
815 -.- 

816 

816 

816 

816 

817 --- 

817 — - 
818 

818 .... 

819 

821 

821 

S21 .... 

821 

821 



82r .... 
821 .... 
821 .... 
821 .... 

821 

821 

821 

321 .... 

82t 

822 

824 

824 

824 



1S54 

1830 
1830 

1830 

1826 
rem. 



1847 
rem. 
rem. 
1830 
1828 
1827 
1859 
rem. 

e.\c. 
1830 



1830 



1830 
1830 

1830 
1830 



w. of Simon. 
w. of Barnum. 



1872, «. 87 
i88i,(?. 92 

1886 



i825,<2'. 42 
1845,(2;. 82 

1863 

af. 1818 



1849 



w. of John. 



w. of Agur. 



w. of Roswell. 
w. of Joseph. 



i825,i?.4i 

1828 
1832 



w. of Simon, Jr. 
w. of Stephen, Jr. 



entered the ministry, 
entered the ministry. 



w. of Jesse. 
w. of Seeley. 



70. of Stiles. 
w. of Barnum. 



w. of Comfort. 



■w. of John M. 
w. of Barzillai. 



tu. of Eli. [bury. 

m, Hubbell ; rem. to Sims- 



tv. of Josiah B. 
w. of Enos. 
■w. of John, Jr. 



French. 



from Trumbull. 

entered the ministry. 

w. of William ; from Wilton. 

w. of Enos. 



—203— 



Name. 



Admission. Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Brown, Sally 1827 P. 

Basset, Ann Eliza 1827 P. 

Basset, Louisa 1827 P. 

Baker, Caroline 1827 P. 

Bartram, Urana 1828 L. 

Baleman, Helen 182S L. 

Blank, Susan Palmer 1S2S P. 

Bliss, Betsey 182S P. 

Backus, Jennett bef. 1826 

Beach, Eliza.. 1821 

Bolen, Mary-. bef. 1S26 

Benedict, Alanson bef. 1826 

Brown, Mary E. bef. 1830 

Belts, James _ _ 1S28 

Betts, Esther 1828 

Blatchford, Rev. John 1S30 

Blatchford, Frances 1830 

Beach, Elizabeth 1821 P. 

Bartlett, Julia 1831 

Beardsle)', Hiram 1831 

Baker, Jesse 1831 

Blakeman, Abijah 1831 

Betts, James B 1S31 

Black, Mary Ann 1831 . 

Bray, William 1832 

Bray, Sarah E 1833 

Beers, Samantha 1833 

Bartram, Maria bef. 1830 

Beach, Isaac E. 1832 

Baldwin, Charity 1831 

Beers, Hannah 1833 

Bradley, Harriet 1831 

Beach, Dr. and Dea. Samuel, bef. 1834 I>. 

Beach, Mary 1834 L. 

Bunnell, William R 1S35 L. 

Bunnell, Sarah H 1835 

Brewster, Jane 1836 

Bunnell, Diantha 1836 

Bolin, Eliza A 1836 

Beach. Julia Ann 1837 

Bliss, Henry H ,. 1837 

Bliss, 1837 

Bunnell, Mrs. Thomas 1838 

Burr, Margaret M 1838 P. 

Bi.\by, Harriet 1S39 L. 

Boughton, Hannah 1840 

Beecher, Frances Julia A. (Jones) 1840 P. 

Beecher, Rev. Thomas K 

Booth, Sarah C. bef. 1841 

Bassett, Freeman C. (soc. 1S34). 1841 P. 

Bassett, Maria 1841 P. 

Birch, Eliza 1S42 P. 

Beardsley, Rev. Bronson B. ( 1844 P. 
(soc. 1840] 1S64 L. 

Backus, Susan W. (Seymour) 1845 L. 

Baldwin, Rachael 1845 

Beardsley, Nichols (soc. 1835).. 1848 P. 



1830 



rem. 
dism. 
1830 

1831 
1830 
1829 
rem. 
rem. 
1832 



1837 
1885 



1837 
1833 

exc. for 



wid. of Brown. 

III. Sherman. 



V). of John. 
w. of Albin P. 



1833 

1858 
1859 



1832 



withdraw 



1877, «• 75 
1852, «. 80 



w. of Isaac, 
entered the ministry. 



w. of James. 

to Chicago. 

w. of Rev. John. 



to Charleston, S. C. 
to Baptist Church, 
ing to Baptist Church. 
IV. of Judson. 



w. of Ira. 



fr.Stamf'd 
dism. 



dism. 
dism. 
dism. 
dism. 
dism. 
1868, 1894 



1857 



1870 

I §48 
1870 



wid. of Timothy. 

wid. of . 

] [Norwalk. 

May 6, '53 drowned in railroad disaster at 

w. of Samuel. 

1872 jclerk of church 1856 to 1870. 
April 1835'OT.of Wm.R.,a'a«.of S.S.Haight. 



1858, iS. 80 



wid. of Rufus. 



w. of Henry H. 



i860, a-. 84 



1858, <?. 72 
1864, «. 68 



7vid. of Rufus. 
from Valatie, N. Y. 

wid. of . 

w. of Rev. Thomas K. 
to Elmira, N. Y. 



w. of Freeman C. 



1867, le.b^dau. of Stephen Burroughs. 



w. of Oswald. 



-204 — 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission, 



Death. 



Remarlcs. 



Beardsley, Anna W j „j "";" 

Birch, David M _. 1S49 P. 

Blank, Miss Sarah 1849 

Bradley, Lucinda 1849 L. 

Baldwin, George 1850 L. 

Baldwin, Abigail 1850 L. 

Benham, Mary S 1850 

Beardsley, Dea. Agur (soc. 1863) 1852 L 

Beardsley, Lucinda (Nichols) 1852 L. 

Blake, Henry T 1852 L. 

Blank, Abram P.._ 1S59 L. 

Burr, Rufus 

Brooks, Joseph W 

Brooks, Elizabeth 

Beardsley, Wilson (soc. 1849) _. - 

Bradley, Morehouse W. (soc. '44) 185S P. 

Benham, Julius (soc. 1841) - 

Balconi, Sumner _ _. 1854 L. 

Blackman, Treat 1855 L. 

Bishop, Mary J^ne _ 

Brooks, Samuel H 1857 L. 

Brooks, Frances E. 1857 L. 

Brown, Rebecca W 1858 P. 

Bunnell, James S 1858 P. 

Beach, J. Wickliff 1858 L. 

Brown, Dr. Henry C. (soc. 1856) 

Beach, George E 1858 P. 

Bray, George A 1S58 

Balcom, Jennie S.- 1858 P. 

Balcom, Mary Elizabeth 1S5S P. 

Birk, Charles H _. 1S58 P, 

Blinn, Samuel E. 1S64 P. 

Barlow, Daniel S 1S58 P, 

Beardsley, Sarah A 1858 L, 

Beach, Mary E 1858 P 

Beach, John H. (soc. 1856) . - . 

Baker, Margaret L 1859 L, 

Beardsley, Marcia 1859 P, 

Bennet Mary.. 1859 L, 

Bradley, Theodore F. (soc. 1870) i860 

Baker, Elisha 

Baldwin, Jennie __ i860 P 

Buss. Persis H i860 L, 

Bishop, James P 1S60 L. 

Bishop, Charles K i860 L 

Bishop, Celestia O. i860 L 

Buss, R. T. (soc. 1861) 

Bissell, Mary 1861 L, 

Bunnell, Katharine S 1863 P 

Beardsley, Mary W.. l86l L, 

Baldwin, Eliza V 1863 L, 

Barlow, Daniel S. (soc. 1857-68) 

Barnum, Emeline L 1S64 P. 

Bishop, Edward W 1864 P. 

Basset, Charles H 

Barnum, Lydia 1864 L. 



1852 
1868 



1870 
1870 
1863 



1864 



1867 
1867 
1852 

1863 



dism. 
i860 
1858 

1872 
i860 



1865 

1859 
1S73 



1865 
1870 

1876 
1S65 
1865 

1874 
1 868 
1868 
1868 



1892 
1870 
1869 

1872 



w. of Wilson. 



1853 
1850 



1865, <s. 70 



i860, <?. 42 
1864,^.61 



[Henry S. Parrott. 
7V. of Morehouse, W., 2d w. of 



w. of George. 
TV. of Julius. 



w. of Agur. 



«//(/. Dr. Henry C. 
to San Francisco, 
to Yale College. 



1877,^.44 
1864 



1876 



m. Holcomb. 

m. Samuel E. Blinn. 



TV. of Henry N. 
w. of John H. 



w. of Elisha. 



w. of R. T. 
■w. of James P. 



m. Dr. George F. Lewis. 

7v. of Rev. B. B. 

m. Dr. Joseph H. Grier. 



205 



Name. 



Admission. 



Backus, Joseph S 1865 P. 

Burrill, 1865 P. 

Bradbury, Frank B. (soc. 1868) 

Beebe, James L. 

Bradley, Eliza N _, 1867 L. 

Brinsmade, Hobart ) 188 T ' 

Barnum, Eunice G. (McD.) 1S67 P. 

Barnum, W. H. (soc. 1865) 

Brown, Maggie l868 L. 

Brown, Margaret 1S68 L. 

Brown, James D. 

Brown, Catharine S 1868 P. 

Brown, Miss Matilda.. i86g L. 

Bronson, Orlando H. (soc. 1872) 1878 

Bal com, Laura __ 1854 L. 

Backus, Mary P 1858 L. 

Banks, Cornelia C._ 1861 P, 

Barlow, Charity.. 1863 P, 

Bradley, Edward H 1864 P, 

Bradbury, Susan E 1866 L, 

Bracken, Alice H. (Hanford)... 1874 P. 

Bunnell, Cornelia S 1831 P. 

Birch, Juliette 1842 P. 

Birdsey, Ezekiel (soc. 1837) 1844 P. 

Brooks, Eleanor H. 1844 P. 

Birch, Mary A. 1858 P. 

Birdsey, Martha W 1858 P, 

Birdsey, George K 1858 P, 

Blinn, MaryE 1858 P. 

Bronson. Ann E.. 1S57 P. 

Brown, Rebecca W._ 1858 P. 

Beach, MaryE 1S58 P. 

Bronson, Peleg 1S58 P. 

Burton, Oriana (Sprague) 1859 P, 

Bunnell, Julia H 1863 P, 

Beebe, Bessie Howard 1866 P. 

Bronson, Maria Frances 1870 P, 

Beecher, Charles M. 1S72 L. 

Benedict, George 1873 P. 

Beardsley, Ella Cornelia 1873 P. 

Brigham, Edwin G. (soc. l858).. 1871 L, 

Brigham, Marietta P 1871 L, 

Brigham, Arthur L. 1871 L, 

Beecher, Anna Johnson 1874 L. 

Beeman, Mary Eliza A 1S76 P. 

Briggs, Lizzie H. 1874 P. 

Baldwin, Emily P. 1876 L. 

Baillie, Gertrude Maria 1877 P, 

Baillie, Matilda McCoy 1877 P, 

Beach, James Eaton 1876 P 

Beers, Mary J. (Hanford) 1876 P, 

Beach, David Sherman 1876 P. 

Barrow, Adelaide 1877 P, 

Beach, Isaac Eaton 1877 P. 

Bennetto, Elizabeth Ann 1877 P. 



Dismission. 



1876 
1890 



1883 



1894 
1883 



1880 
1894 
1880 



1879 



Death. 



Oct.27,'65 



1888 
1880 
1885 



1883 



1878 



1882 



w. of Villeroy. 



Remarks. 



w. of Theodore F. 



w. of W. H. 

[Dale. 
dau. of James D., -a. of T. N. 
lo. of James D., M.D. 



m. 1868, Jos. P. French, M.D. 

J. of Peleg. 
ivid. of Sumner. 
wid. of Oswald. 
w. of Edwin. 
w. of Daniel S. 

w. of Frank B. [Thomas. 

dau. of James Hanford, w. of 

wid. of Wm. R., dau. of David 

[and Deborah Sterling. 



wid. of Joseph W. 
7uid. of George E. 
w. of Geo. K., dau. of Horace 
[F. Hatch. 
wid. of Samuel. 
w. of Peleg. 
widol Dr. H. C. 
w. of John H. 



w. of Silas. 
dau. of William R. 
w. of Jabez L. 
w. of Orland H. 



entered the ministry. [Haives. 
w. of George B., dau. of E. N. 



w. of Edwin G. 



w. of Charles M. 
w. of Geo. S. Waller. [Beach. 
w. of Warren R., dau. of Geo. E. 
w. of Sherlon L. [Sterling. 

w. of Wm. E., dau. of Dan. H. 
dau. of Daniel H. Sterling. 



w. of Seth L. 
s. of John H. 
dau. of George. 
s. of George E. 
wid. of John. 



— 2o6- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. Death. 



Botsford, Henry C - 

Burr, Anna J 

Bullock, Anna C 

Beach, Herman. -.May, 

Barnum, Marcus 

Barnum, Mary J 

Beach, Matilda'B 

Birdsey, Herbert 

Brown, Samuel _. 

Bodwell, Minnie Alice (Fuller) 

Beecher, Maria _. 

Beecher, Fanny Maria 

Beardsley, George Blakeman .. 

Bartley, Joseph Dana 

Bartley, Mary At wood 

Bartley, Helen Preston 

Bartley, William Tenney 

Bennetto. John 

Brundage Elizabeth T 

Busse, Annie M. (McKinnon).. 

Banks, Sarah C ._ __ 

Baldwin, Sherlon L 

Bronson, Fanny Louisa 

Birdsey, Mary Gertrude 

Botsford, Emeline Eliza 

Burr, Mary Hammond 

Blachl)-, Mary I 

Bartram, Mattie L 

Beach, Mar}' Jane 

Bishop, William F 

Boardman, Ellen L 

Baldwin, .Alice May 

Bishop, Mary Linda 

Blodgett, Dr. Henry 

Brinsmade, Ella M 

Brinsmade, Robert Bruce 

Barrett, Lucy A 

Beardsley, Morris B 

Beardsley, LucyJ.__ 

Beardsley, Samuel F.. 

Burlison, James 

Benson, Abel T. 

Benson. Mariina 

Beers, Cora May 

Beers, Mary J 

Baldwin, Lewis Palmer 

Beardsley, Lucy May 



1877 
1878 
1878 
1S78 
1S79 
1S79 
1879 
1879 

1879 

1879 

1880 

1880 

1S80 

1883 

1883 

1SS3 

1883 

1883 

1S83 

18S2 . 

1831 

18S4 

1S84 

1885 

1S85 

1884 

1S86 

1887 

1SS6 

1889 

1887 

1S89 

18S9 

18S7 

1S89 

lS8g 

1S90 

1890 

1890 

189I 

1890 

1892 

1892 

1893 

1893 
1894 
1894 



P. 
L. 
L. 
P. 
L. 
L. 
L. 
P. 
L. 
P. 
L. 
P. 
P. 
L. 
L., 
L. 
P. 
P. 
L. 

P. 
P. 

L. 
P. 
L. 
L. 
L. 
L.I 
L.| 
L.! 
h. 
P.i 
P. 
L.l 
L.I 
P. 
L. 
P. 
P. 
P. 
P. 
L. 
L. 
P. 
L. 
P. 
P. 



Curtis, Matthew 1809 R.C. 

Curtis, Polly 1809 R.C. 

Cable, Polly May 6, 1810 

Croford, Hannah 1815 

Clark, Dorothy _ 1816 

Crawford, George 1816 

Cable, Thomas 1S20 

Cannon, Mary 1821 

Chichester, Alfred 1821 



1888 
1890 



1882 
1882 



1892 
1892 
1892 
1894 
1883 

1891 



1888 



1890 
1890 
1892 



1893 
1893 



1826 
1S28 

1827 



1892 
May, 1878 



1885 



Remarks. 



.f. of H. H. 
TV. of Israel M. 



w. of Marcus. 
w. of James E. 
s. of George K. 



w. of Joseph D. 
tfaii. of Joseph D. 
s. of Joseph D. 



w. of Franz Theo. 
wid, of Charles B. 



w. of Orland H. 
ifau. of George K. 



w, of Ebenezer. 
,t/au. of Jos. W. 
w. of Edgar B. 



tiau. of Sherlon L. 
Ij/aa. of William F. 



TO. of Hobart B. 
i.t. of Hobart B. 



1810, <?. 40 



susp. 
exc. 



w. of Morris B. 
s. of Morris B. 



TO. of Abel T. 
(/au. of Mary J. 



s. of Sherlon L. 
t/an. of Morris B. 



w. of Matthew. 
■w. of Samuel. 



— 207 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarlcs. 



rosby, Nathaniel P. 

arrier, Alpha 

annon, Elizabeth 

handler, Moses 

urtis, Andrew 

able, Eliza 

antield. Lucretia 

urtis, Victory 

urtis, Susan 

oty, Cornelia M 

hichester, Susan bef. 

urtis, Hepsa 

aswell, Joana 

rane, Horace F 

urtis, George A 

ooke, Elizabeth 

rawford, Harriet 

roninberger, Hannah 

onlclin, Isaac M 

annon, Lavinia 

ameron, Roxanna 

larlv, Susan A _ 

lark, Andrew. 

urtis, Janetta (Peck) bef. 

hatfield, Susan (Kippen) 

lark, Eliza B 

lark. Dr. James H 

lark, Mary Elizabeth 

lark. Serene B 

lark, Lydia j 

lark, Mary Jane -j 

onklin, Sarah E 

happel, Caroline -j 

aswell, Alanson -] 



1821 
1S21 
1823 
1823 
1823 
1824 
1827 



L. 
L., 

L.I 



aswell, Mary _ 

lark, William A 

hatfield, Elizabeth (Brooks) 

ummings, Cornelia A 

urtis, Rodney 

urtis, 

ronenberger, Joseph 

hatfield, Henry W. (soc. 1841). 

lark, Mr 

ummings, Cornelia 

urtis, Israel I. 

hambers, Mary A. (Bulkley) _. 

hambers, Francis 

ronenberger, Augusta E. 

ole, Julia M. _. 

urtis, Alfred H 

arter. Oilman. 

arter, Ida Augusta 

urtis, Miss Cornelia M. 



1826 . 
1831 . 

1831 . 
1831 . 

1831 . 

1832 . 
1832 . 

1832 . 

1833 . 

1835 
1835 
1838 . 
1840 
1841 , 
1841 . 
1841 , 
1841 
1841 
1844 
1850 
1870 

1850 ■ 
1870 
1851 
1851 
1854 
1831 . 
1851 
1851 

1851 . 
1S52 
1852 



P. 

L.! 
L. 
L. 

^:! 
p. 

L.I 

l' 

L. 

L. 
L. 



1831 
1837 
1844 



exc. 

1835 

1826 
rem. 

1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1827 



dism. 
1844? 
dism. 
dism. 
1863 
1S8S? 

1863 

1853 
1852 
1858 

i860 

i860 

1855 
1867 

1854 
1868 

1S68 

1867 
1S63 



1857 


L. 


185S 


1858 


L. 




1858 


P. 


IS59 


IS58 


P. 





l8:;8 


L. 





i8sq 


P. 


1862 


i8SQ 


L. 





iSsq 


L. 


1867 


1861 


P. 






from Stratford. 

w. of Thomas ; Ir. Meth. Ch. 



1866, <z. 82 
1851 
rem. 
rem. 
1836 
dism. 

1855 
i86i,«. 60 

1875, «. 67 



1851 



w. of Alfred. 
wid. of . 



■wid. of Bronson. 
iu. of Joseph. 



■w. of Robert. 



from Milford. 
w. of George. 



1863 



wid. of Elijah. 
dau. of Elijah. 



w. of Alanson. 



w. of Henry W. 
■wid. of . 



1855 
1854 

1855 
1866 



w. of Rodney. 






w. of Francis. 

w. of . 

w. of Oilman. 



— 208- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission, 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Curtis, D.iniel 

Capen, Christopher 

Collin, Edward W 

Capen, George C -- 

Chapman, T. P 

Chapman, Anna H 

Cate Adelia E 

Cate, Adelia E. _-. 

Curtis. Homer S._ 

Carr, Dabney 

Conklin, Betsey 

Campbell. Mary (Bissell) 

Cameron, Robert (soc. 1834) 

Curtis, Julia 

Curtis, Alice (Bradley) 

Capen, Lydia 

Coffin, Mary W 

Cate, Stephen M 

Collier, Margaret E. A .. 

Clark, Elizabeth A. (Birdsey) .. 

Cowles, George B 

Cowles, Cordelia W 

Cole, John H. (soc. 1868) 

Cole, Margaret A 

Curtis. Amelia M. (Beach) 

Canfield, William Edwin .. 

Canfield, Mary Elvira 

Cowles, George Burr 

Carter, John Robert 

Conklin, Alexander Bowen 

Cogswell, Richard Baldwin 

Cogswell, Lucy Maria 

Cogswell, Mary Kate.. 

Cogswell, Sarah Jane 

Canlield, Alice W 

Campbell, Andrew Chambre 

Carter, Maria C 

Crump, Frances Bell (Hastings) 

Crane, Carrie J. (Nichols) 

Campbell, Battle Barrett 

Conklin, Ann.. 

Cowles, Martin 

Cowles, Cynthia B. K 

Cameron, Ann Elizabeth 

Cogswell, Richard William 

Cogswell, Grace Maria 



Deforest. Philo. 1808 R.C. 

Darling, Samuel 1807 

Darling, Nancy 1807 

Dudley, Hannah 1808 

DeFor'est, Betsey 1808 

Deforest, Nancy 1808 

DeForest, Eleanor 1824 

Doane, Susan 1827 P. 

DeForest, Mary L 1827 P. 

DeForest, Louisa . 



1863 


L. 


I86I? 





1864 


P. 


1866 


L. 


1866 


L. 


1867 


L. 


1867 


L. 


1867 


L. 


1868 


P. 


IS33 - 


. 


IS6I 


L. 


1858 


p. 


1861 


p. 


1864 


p. 


1863 


L. 


1863 


L. 


IS67 


L. 


1868 


P. 


1870 


P. 


1871 


L. 


I87I 


L. 


1874 


L. 


1874 


P. 


1876 


P. 


1877 


L. 


1877 


L. 


1877 


P. 


1880 


P. 


187c, 


P. 


I88I 


L. 


I88I 


L 


1882 


P. 


1883 


P 


1882 


P 


IS83 


P 


I8S3 


P 


1883 


P 


1884 


L 


I8S5 


L 


1885 


L 


1885 


L 


188.; 


L 


18S6 


L 


I8S8 


P 


l8gl 


P 



1870 

1874 
1868 

1870 



1886 
1869 

1881 



I88I 
1881 



1887 
i8si 



1892 



1895 
1892 



1S30 
1830 
1830 



1877, «. 67 

1873 
1869, <?. 49 



1S74 
1893 
1886 
1886 



1887 



w. of T. P. 

7v. of Stephen M. [W. Coe. 

dau. of Stephen M., >/i. Irving 



wid. of Isaac M. 



luiiti. of Daniel. 
wid. of Homer S. 
^wid. of Christopher. 
w. of Edwin. 



w. of James. 

dau. of Ezekiel Birdsey. 

■w. of George B. 

w. of John H. [Beach, 

w. of G. S., dau. of John H, 

w. of William Edwin. 



7v. of Richard B. 
dau. of Henry C. 
w. of Henry C. 
w. of Charles S. 



s. of Richard B. 
dau. of Richard B. 



1825, «. 71 



w. of Henry S. 

w. of L. B. 

w. of Andrew C. 



w. of Samuel. 



w. of Philo. 
wid. of 



-209 — 



Name. 



Admission. Dismission 



Death. 



Remarks. 



avy, Emily 

avy, Harriet.- 

avis, Robert C 

unning, William M. 

unning. .•\melia Louisa . 
avies, David 

Emeline 



yer, 

ay, Emily Jones 

ay, Daniel, Jr.. 

yer, William B 

onaldson, Sarah M 

'onaldson, Thomas 

iavis, Phebe 

avion, Phebe M 

iay, John B 

'.ly. Mary Elizabeth 

lavis, Vjctoria V. (Trulock) . 

lavis, Guernsey W 

lana, Mary S ., 

leForest, Isaac 

leKorest, Sarah Ann 

lickerman. Mary Lacey 

lay, Rev. Dea. Guy B. 

lay, Mary (Barnes) 

lurand, Lizzie 

lurfee, Amelia 

leForest, Eliza L 

lay, Julius Barnes.. 

>ay, Emily Bradford 

(ana. Ellen R 

)iller, Laura J. (Paul) 

Iyer, Minnie Lawson 

>yer, Ann Eliza 

)avenport, Mary Eliza 

)ay, Arthur Whittlesey 

)ickerman, Ezra Day 



1831 

1832 . 

1S34 . 

1836 

1836 

1838 

1S32 

1851 

1842 



1851 
1855 



1861 
1861 
1863 
1863 
1864 



1868 
1869 



d^erton, Lucretia 

ells. Waterman 

ells, Luthenia 

dwards. Charity 

;dwards, Thomas 

dwards, Chloe 

;dwards, Cloe 

;ilis, Nancv 

:llis, William 

^vertson, Eliza 

;dwards, Charles (soc. i857-'75) 

lasland. John B -- 

;iliott, Henry — 

llliott, Anna G 



1869 
1855 

1855 
1864 
1867 
1871 
1876 
1876 

1877 
T878 
1882 
1882 
1884 
:S84 
1884 

1816 . 
1817. 

1817 . 

1818 . 
1822 . 

1822 . 

1823 . 
1827 
1828 
1836 

1855 
1859 
1859 
1872 



Dly, Seymour W. (soc. 1868).. 

inglehart, Charles 

Jnnisley, William (soc. 1868). 
Cnnisley, Eliza 



dism. 
dism. 



dism. 
dism. 



exc. 

1873 



1870 
1870 



1870 



1887 



1SS4 

i8go 
dism. 



1891 



1870 



after 1861 



i8go 

1869 

1869 

1866,^.67 



1864 
1870 



1869 



1891 



1885 



w. of William M. 



■w. of William B. 
■w. of Daniel, Jr. 



m. Seth Hill. 



m. Willmer. 

w. of Guernsey W. 



w. of ■ 



m. S. S. Hunter. 



wid. of Guy B. 

(/a». of Mrs. H. T. Wheeler. 

sister of Mrs. Jas. B. Prescott. 

w. of Marcus. 

s. of Guy B. 

Jan. of Guy B. 

dau. of George E. Wheaton. 

w. of J. S. Diller. 

Jan. of William B. 

wii/. of William B. 

■w. of Daniel. 

s. of Guv B. 



1830 
1830 





— 


1821,^.34 


susp. 
rem. 
1830 
1830 


— . 


1858 
1867 





1S67 


1886 



w. of Waterman. 
w. of Daniel. 



wid. of Thomas. 



w. of Henry. 



w. of William. 



14 



— 2IC 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Ellis. Fannie J - 1868 P. 

Ely, Mary E. (Wheeler) 1859 P. 

Edwards, Sophia 1844 P. 

Englehart, Elizabeth A 1S57 L. 

Eaton, Mary \V.(Hawley) 1863 P. 

Edwards, Eleanor 1873 P. 

Earle, John Baptist -- 1877 P. 

Earle, Barbara Innes - 1877 P. 

Eanies, Carlos Sidney - 1881 P. 

Eames. Carrie Belle 18S1 P. 

Edmonds, Mary Hopper 1882 L. 

Englehart, Elizabeth S 1894 P. 



French, William , 
French, Betsey . 



French, Snsannah . 

Fitch, Charles 

French, Joseph B 

French, Drusilla 

French, Ebenezer 

French. Susan .- .- 

Fish, Catharine G 

Fowler, Hannah bef. 

French, Marie bef. 

French, Maria 

French, Mary E. ..- 

Freeman, Rose Ann 

French, Ann Eliza 

Foot, Hepsa Ann 

Foster, Junius 

Fancher, Caroline 

Fairweather, Mrs. Daniel 

French, Wheeler (soc. 1835) 

Fairchiid, Eliad 

Foster, Irwin 

Fairchiid, Amanda 

Farron, Charlotte 

Foote, Charles, Jr 

French, Hattie N 

French, Caroline Louisa, 

Fisherdick, George H 

Fishcrdick, Eunice M. (Webster) 

Fowler, Arabella S 

Fox, William S. (soc. 1868) 

Fox, Mary I 

French, Harriet B 

French. Susan M 

French, Henry N — 

French, Polly B 

Fairchiid, Thedosia 

Forsyth, Mary L. (Tomlinson).. 

French, Catharine B. .. 

Follansbeo, John L 

Follansbce, Eunice R 

Foster, Evelyn Matilda (Smith). 



1809 R.C. 
i8og R.C. 

1810 

1815 

1810 

1S15 .--- 
1815 — - 

1815 

1816 

1821 

1S27 P. 

1826 

1830 

1S21 

1821 

1831 

1832 

1837 .... 
1847 L. 
1852 L. 



1853 L. 



1858 
1861 
1867 
1867 



1868 
1831 
1831 
1832 

1834 
1844 
1864 
1868 
1868 
1868 
1883 



1894 
1894 
1892 



dism. 



1830 



dism. 



1855 



1862 
1858 
1862 
1868 

1874 
1874 
1859 



1888 

1S87 
1887 
1890 



1895 



w. of Ellis. 

w. of Seymour W. 

w. of Charles. 

w. of Charles. [Hawley. 

7u. of Levi W., dau. of Thos. 

dau. of Charles. 



w. of John B. 



w. of George B. 



1866, a. 80 TV. of William. 

1 
1835,1?. 74 w. of Gamaliel, Jr. 

1862, <s. 75 



1830 w. of Joseph. 
1843 



1832 

1853 
1869 



1872 
1858 
1853 



m. Glasco. 

■w. of Wheeler. 
w. of Ebenezer. 



1871 

1884 

1S84 
1879 
18S2 



■wid. of • 



wid. of John. 



■w, of George H. 



w. of William S. 
■w. of Henry N. 



'tvid. of Capt. Joseph B. 
wid. of Eliud W. [Tomlinson. 
w. of John, dau. of Stephen 
w. of Dr. Joseph L. 



\w. of John L. 
\w. of C. L. 



— 211 — 



Name. 



Admission, 



Dismission. Death. 



Remarks. 



Fairchild, Lilian Maud (Wilson) 1884 P. 

Fuller, Mary Augusta 1885 P. 

Fancher, Ann Augusta 1885 L, 

Fitzgerald, Mary Isabella 1885 L. 

French, Burr H 1894 P. 



Gouge, Thomas bef. 

Gouge, Ruth bef. 

Gregory, Hulda(F.M. 1777) 

Grounderson, Salome 

Grant, John 

Gray, Joseph — 

Gregory, Ezra, Jr F.M. 1810, 

Gray, .4nn M 

Gordon, Elizabeth. 

Gregory, Bethia. 

Gregory, Mary E. 

Griffith, Harriet - 

Graves, Hannah 

Goulden, Joseph 

Griffith, Maria A _ 

Griswold, Matilda 

Gridley, Charlotte 

Griffith, Ann Elizabeth _ 

Gates, Robert \V. 

Gates, Mary Elizabeth 

Gridley, George E. (soc. 1841).- 

Gregor)', Elizabeth L 

Good ale, Joseph H 

Goodale, Melinda 

Goodale, Mary 

Golden, Josiah R. 

Graham, Alva C 

Gardner, Albinus M 

Gould, N. (soc. 1856) 

Grounderson, Mary L. . 

Grogan, Andrew 

Grogan, Harriet Preston 

Goulden, Lydia 

Grounderson, Peter -- 

Gray, Rhoda M 

Goulden, Lydia 

Gould, Lucinda (Nichols) 

Goff, Louise W.(Lyon) 

Gawley, Mary Elizabeth 

Gamsby, Carrie M. (Sterling)... 

Gawley, Lizzie 

Griswold, George W. (soc. '42).. 

Gordon, Ale.xander S. ( 

(soc. 1826) Rest, j 

Griffith, Fanny 

Gilbert, Kathleen Estelle 

Gamsby, Alfred Henderson 

Gaylord, Carlotta M 

Gaylord, Bessie Theoda 

Gaylord, Carlotta Jennie 



1813 R.C. 

1827 

1813R.C. 

1813 

1S15 

1816 

1821 

1827 P. 



1823 

1815 .... 

1831 

1831 

1836 P. 



1856 
1S56 
1856 
1856 
185B 
1858 
i860 



1837 
1858 
1864 

1837 
1864 
1868 
1873 
1874 
1874 
1869 
1832 . 

1875 
1876 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1885 
1885 



1839 L. 
1839 L. 

1844 

1845 .... 
1851 L. 
1851 P. 



1867 P, 



1886 



1886 



1830 

1856 

1837 
dism. 



dism. 
dism. 



1856 
dism. 
dism. 
dism. 



1859 

1871 
1871 



1878 

1885 
1858 



dism. 
1886 



1893 

1848 
1861 



1827, «. 23 
1871 



after 1851 



1862 

1868, «. 48 

1862 



1859, <s. 22 
after i860 



1867, «. 42 



1878 
1884 

1878 



1885 
1882 



w. of R. N. 

IV. of John E. 

wid. of Sherman. 

dau. of Charles M. Gaylord. 



w. of Thomas. 

■wid. of Thaddeus? d. in N. Y. 

wid. of Peter. 



w. of Alexander. 
w. of Ezra. 



m. George F. Tracy. 



w. of George W. 
IV. of George E. 



For many years S. S. Librarian. 
w. of Robert W. 



■w. of Joseph H. 



w. of Peter. 



wid. of Joseph H. 
wid. of Joseph H. 



wid. of Jonathan. [E. C. Goff, 
wid. of Asahel L. Lyon, w. of 
w. of Dr. Samuel S. [Sterling. 
w. of Alfred H., dau. of Walter 
dau. of Samuel S. 



dau. of Thomas. 



VI. of Rev. S. D. 
dau. of Carlotta M. 
dau. of Carlotta M. 



-2 12- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Gaylord, Harry Clayton 

Ga'rlick, Dr. Sainuel Middleton. 
Garlick, Harriet Trubee (Knapp) 
Garlick, Almira Elizab'th Trubee 
Gedney, Josephine 

Hawley, Samuel bef. 

Hawley, Gurdon bef. 

Hawley, Ebenezer -bef. 

Hawley, Zalmon bef. 

Hubbell, Ezekiel bef. 

Hubbell, Catharine bef. 

Hubbell, Aaron bef. 

Hubbell, Sally ._ bef. 

Hubbell, David bef. 

Hubbell, Anne bef. 

Hubbell, Anson 

Hubbell, Betsey \ 

Hubbell, Charles Benjamin 

Hubbell, Eliza 

Hawley, Monson 

Hawley, Matilda 

Hawley, Abijah 

Hawley, Talcot _ 

Hall, Narcissa 

Holburton, Sally 

Hawley, Lucy, 2d 

Hubbell, Abiah 

Hubbell, Bethiah 

Hubbell, Elisha 

Hawley, Stephen 

Hawley, Betsey 

Hildrop, Mary 

Holburton, Eunice 

Hawley, Temperance 

Hull, Errata 

Hatch, Nancy 

Hyer William 

Hawley, George 

Hawlev, Caroline 

Hawlev, Sally 

Hull, Sarah .. 

Hubbell, Asa 

Hawley, Ransom 

Hawley, Samuel, 3d 

Hawley, Lucy, 3d 

Hall, Sarah Marietta 

Hubbell, David, 3d 

Hubbell, Josiah 

Hull. Ellen 

Hull, Fanny 

Hawley, Emeline 

Hawley, Elizaheth 

Hawley, Eliza 

Hawley, Marj' 

Hawley, Ann Maria 



885 
887 
887 
894 
S85 



L. 
L. 
L. 
P. 
L. 

813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 
S13R.C. 
813 R.C 
813 R.C 



C. 
,C. 
.C. 
.C. 

;.c. 

L.C. 



P. 



813 R 
S13 R 
-813R, 
S13 R 
:82i .. 

814 R. 
S14R 
824 R._. 
824 R.C. 
824 R.C. 
807 
;So8 

810 

811 

814 

S15 -- 

815 -..- 
815 ...- 
815 ---. 
815 -.-- 
815 ---- 
815 — - 
815 — . 
815 -.-- 
815 .... 

816 

816 

816 

817.-. 

821 

821 .... 
821 .... 
821 .... 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 .... 



1830 



1843 
1830 
1830 
dism. 
1S30 
1830 

1S46 

exc. 1823 

1830 

1830 

1828 
dism. 



1830 
1828 



dism. 



1830 



s. Carlotta M. 



1895 



. of Samuel RL 
i/au. of Samuel M. 



w. of Ezekiel. 
■w. of Aaron. 
w. of David. 



1870, <r. 81 



w. of David, 3d 



w. of Charles Benjamin. 
w. of Monson. 



1830 



1846 
1853,^.76 



IV. of Samuel. 
w. of David. 
■u). of Samuel. 



■w. of Samuel. 



OT. of Stephen. 
■w. of Wakeman. 
w. of Daniel. 



m. William Mallett. 
entered ministrj'. 



after 1837 
after 1824 



Gray. 



-213— 



Name. 



Admission. 



Hawley, Marietta 1821 

Hawley, Anson T iSzi 

Hall, j'osiah B. (soc. 1820) 1827 P. 

Hall, Elizabeth 1827 L. 

Hawley, Frederick 1827 P. 

Hubbard, Harriet 1827 P. 

Hawley, Elizabeth 1827 P. 

Hilliard, Hannah _ 1827 L. 

Higby, Hervey 1828 P. 

Higby. Charlotte 1S28 P. 

Hawley, Bronson 1828 P. 

Hall, Marietta S 

Hawley, Mary B bef. 1826 

Hubbell, Marlott ._ bef. 1830 

Hubbell, Laura (Wordin) 1828 

Hatch, Daniel 1831 

Hawley, Julius W 1831 

Holly, William H 1831 

Husted, Stephen St. John 1831 

Hall, Samuel 1831 

Hart, Hannah 1831 

Hamlin, Mary 1833 

Hunter, Rev. John H 1838 

Hull, Amos G.__ 1839 

Hull, Emily 1839 

Hubbell, Julia 1831 

Hatch, Daniel B., Jr... 1831 

Hatch, Anna 1831 

Halght, Joseph 1836 

Howick, Ann 1836 

Howick, Henry H 1838 

Hunter, Sarah 1839 L. 

Hunter, Julia M 1839 L. 

Hatch, Sheldon 1840 L. 

Hartwell, Sherman 1840 L. 

Hartwell, Rachel 1840 P. 

Hatch, Mary A 1842 P. 

Hull, Abigail 1844 P. 

Hatch, Sarah (Gregory) 1844 P. 

Hopkins, John (soc. 1840) 1844 P. 

Hall, Eleanor 1844 P. 

Hull, Eliza 1845 P. 

Hubbell, Charles B 1848 P. 

Hubbell, Eliza (Thompson) 1848 P. 

Hubbard, Calista S 1849 L. 

Hartwell, Cornelia 1850 P. 

Hall, Delia _ 1852 P. 

Hall, Charles H. (soc. 1850).. 

HIncks, Dea. John W 1852 L. 

Hincks. Sarah A 1852 L. 

Hull, Wakeman (soc. 1854-1868) 

Hall, Sarah E 1853 L 

Hubbell, David M... 

Hawley, Charles (soc. iS35-'4g) 

Hall, Samuel B. (soc. 1856-1S6S) 

Hanford, Stephen (soc. 1856)... 183S P. 



Dismission. 



1830 
1830 

1830 
1831 

1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1S30 
1830 
1833 

1859 



1833 
rem. 



1845 



1866 
dism. 



dism. 
dism. 



dism. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



1892 
Dec. 1827 



m. Knapp. 

■w. of Josiah B. 



w.oi Josiah. 

1883 wid. of Alfred. 
!to Christ Church. 



1835 



bef. 1868 

1848 

1S52 
1849 



1843 

:876,.?.85 



bef. 1851 
1873 



■w. of Alanson. 



w. of Amos. 
to New York. 



w. of Rev. J. H. 



w. of Horace F. 



m. Joseph W. Brooks. 



1873,^.84 

1862, «. 70 w. of Charles B 



1 868 
1871 



1875, «. 57 
1864, «. 43 

1871 



w. of T. B. [Hubbard. 

dau. Sherman, m. Dr. Robert 
■w. of Charles H. 



w. of Turney. 



-214- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Hanford. Louisa 1838 P. 

Hawley, Lucy C. (Wordin) 1841 

Holcomb, William W.(soc. T842) 1844 P. 

Holcomb, Julia 1844 P. 

Hall, Polly 1 1844 P. 

Hawley, Edmund S 

Hopkins, Abigail -., 1845 L. 

Hubbard, T. B. (see. 1849) 

Hall, Charles H. (soc. 1850) 

Hubbell, Caroline 1854 L. 

Hoyle, George -- 

Hatch, Daniel B 1855 P. 

Hall, Esther A „ 1855 P. 

Hand, Elizabeth W 1855 P. 

Hall, F. L 

Hotchkiss, Josiah 1858 L. 

Hotchkiss, Betsey 1858 L, 

Hotchkiss, Jarvis 1858 L. 

Hotchkiss, Sarah E 1858 L. 

Hall, Fannie 1858 P. 

Holcomb, 



Haux, MarvC 

Hincks, Edward Y., D.D 

Higgins, Jane C 

Hanford, Juliette W 

Huth, Lucy 

Havens, George O 

Havens, Clara M 

Hall, Louisa S 

Huth, Charles L 

Hawley, Thomas 

Hubbell, Charles E 

Hincks, John Howard 

Hatch, Sarah S. G 

Hubbard, Josephine C 

Hubbard, Sarah E. 

Hanford, Harriet A 

Hanford, James 

Hull, Dr. Calvin E F.M. 1868 

Hotclikiss, Lucinda 

Hatch, Horace F 

Hawley, Eliza J 

Hawlev, Frances S 

Hall, Sarah (Walker) 

Hincks, Ann B. (Wordin) 

Hubbell, Elbert E 

Hartwell, Sophia .. 

Hoile. Elizabeth L 

Hubbard, Dr. Robert 

Hartshorn, Catharine A. 

Hawley, Maria 

Hincks, William B., Dea 

Hubbell, Isabella (Stillman)... j 

Hubbell. Howard G 

Hall, Henry. 



1S58 
1858 
1859 
1859 
i860 
i860 
i860 
1861 



1862 

1863 
1863 
1S64 
1S64 
1864 
1864 



1868 
1831 
1831 
1832 
1832 
1832 
1831 
1840 
1854 
1852 

1857 
1862 
1858 
1S45 
1862 
1864 
1864 



Dismission. 



P. 
P. 
P. 
P. 
P. 
P. 
P. 
L. 
L. 
L. 
P. 
L. 
P. 
P. 
L. 
P. 
P. 



dism. 

exc. 1856 

dism. 

1875 
dism. 

1868 



1858 
1856 

1866 
1865 
^865 
1862 



1868 
1868 



1871 

1870 

186S 
1868 



1869 



1894 



Death. 



1853 



i862,<?. 60 



1869 
1893, <?.83 



1860,^.72 
1862, IS. 61 



1S66, <z. 57 

1888 

1875 
1877 



Remarks. 



m. of Stephen. 
w. of Edmund S. 



w. of William W. 

ifau. of Dea. David Sherwood. 



w. of Elbert E. 



to DuQuoin, 111. 
TV. of F. L. 



w. of Jarvis. 

m. William Van Gasbeck. 

to Granby. 

m. James Turner. 

to Church at Yale College. 

mil/, of Stephen S. 
zv. of Charles Lewis. 

w. of George O. 
ifau. of Samuel B. 



to Stratford, 
entered the ministrj'. 

to Stratford, 
to Stratford. 



1894 
1887 



1S89 
1882 
i8go 



1887 
1894 



\7iiiif. of Charles. 
iw. of Anson T. 
[7viii. of Samuel B. 



■wid. of John W. 



7criii. of Sherman. 
■w. of George. 



wid. of Tyler. 
wid. of Thomas. 
J. of John W. 

wid. of Elbert E. 

s. of Elbert E. 



-215— 




Hill, Dr. Seth 1863 P. 

Hincks, Enoch Pond 1863 P. 

Hincks, Mary L. (Hart) 1S67 P. 

Hincks, Cornelia E. (Hart) 1867 P. 

Hanford, Susan A 1S64 P. 

Hawlev, lane M 1867 L. 

Hull, Almira J 1865 L. 

Hunter, Mary L 1869 L. 

House, Frances M 186S L. 

Hoag, Mary 1869 L. 

Hall, George B 1869 L. 

Hall. Lucy - 1869 L. 

Hall, Turney (soc. 1856) 1868 P. 

Hart, Charlotte Irene _ 1873 P. 

Hewitt, Cora Almira 1S73 P. 

Hincks, fane Isabel 1873 P. 

Hobbs, Florence E. (Wilmot) .. 1S74 P- 

Hubbell, Isabel 1870 P. 

Hine, Annie Louise (Dyer) 1874 P. 

Hawes, Edmund V 1S74 P. 

Hartshorn, Tyler W. .__ 1877 P. 

Hartshorn, Kittle Salter 1S77 P. 

Huth, Charles Sackett 1S77 P. 

Hatch, Mary Jane - 1878 P. 

Harrington, Henry Martyn 1878 L. 

Hatch, Elvira -.. 1878 P.: 

HoUey, Rev. Piatt T 1878 . L. 

Hopkins, Mary Elizabeth 1881 P. 

Hobbs, Willis Farrar- l88l L.! 

Hurd, George B.. 1880 L.i 

Hull, Frederick Wellington 1881 P.l 

Hull, Margaret Jane (Nichols).. 1881 P.j 

Hubbell, Rebecca A. (Gould) ,. 1881 L. 

Hubbard, Sophia Todd 1883 L.i 

Hubbard, Cornelia Elizabeth-.. 1883 P.j 

Harrington, Jessie 1882 P.j 

Hughes, Anne J 18S4 L.| 

Harris, Eva M. ._ 18S4 L. 

Horr, Weston Henderson 1884 P. 

Harvey, Alice Anna 1884 L. 

Harlem, J. L 1885 L. 

Harlem, M. A 1885 L. 

Hayes, Chester N 1885 P. 

Hincks, Annie Hart - 1886 P. 

Hubbell, Emily Stillman 1886 P. 

Hincks, Edward Baldwin 1888 P. 

Hilgerson, Matilda 1888 L. 

Hunter, Mabel Harlakenden i88g P. 

Hawle3% Sarah B 1887 L. 

Hall, Frank S. S 1888 P. 

Hawlev, George Waller 1889 P. 

Hincks, Robert Stanley 1889 P. 

Hawley, Alexander William 1S91 P. 

Hincks, Henry Winslow 1890 P. 

Hincks, William Thurston 1891 P. 

Hoile, Frances E i8go P. 

House, Gertrude. 1861 P. 



1892 
1887 



1889 



1888 



1886 
1890 
1S90 

1887 



1887 
1887 



1892 
1890 



1878 
1882 
1882 

1889 



1891 



l8go 



1893 
1889 



s. of John W. 
lu. of William B. 
-cO. of Enoch P. 
7ii. of James. 
OT. of Charles E. 
■zv. of Dr. Calvin E. 
TV. of Samuel S. 
w. of James A. 



w. of George B. 



[V. Hawes. 
TV, of Hewitt, cfau. of Edmund 
dau. John W. [R. Wilmot. 

7v. ol Willis F., t^au. of Samuel 
dau. of George H. 
dau. of William B. Dyer. ' 



.f. of Tyler. 

dau. of Tyler and Catharine. 

.f. of Charles Louis. 

dau. of Leavitt. 



dau. of Leavitt. 
dau. of L. M. 



■u). of Frederick W. 
TV. of Howard G. 
dau. of Dr. Robert. 
m. C. M. Everest. 
dau. of Henrj' M. 
w. of Frank J. 



s. of William L. 
wid. of Frank. 



■w. of J. L. 



dau. of Enoch P. 

dau. Elbert E., /«. Ralph Tilton. 

s. of William B. 



dau. of Samuel S. 



s. of Alexander. 
J-. of William B. 
/. of Alexander. 
s. of Enoch P. 
J. of William B. 
. Fred. Soniers. 



[Gold. M.D. 



dau. of James A., ;«. James D. 



-2l6— 



Name. 



Admission. 



Hugo, Josephine Eva '893 P. 

Hubbell, Gertrude G 1894 P. 

Irish, Eliza M. 1831 

Ingersoll, Emily E 1864 P. 

Ingham, Julia A - l86g P. 

Ingham, Samuel W.{soc. 1857) 

Ingersoll, Marietta 1866 L. 

Jennings, Robert Ross 1810R.C. 

Jones, Widow Mary 1810 

Jennings, Rhoda 1810 

Jennings, Sarah 1810 

Jackson, Ezekiel 1813 L. 

Jackson, Polly 1813 L. 

Jennings, James 1815 

Jackson, Henry- 1815 

Jones, Seth B. 1821 

Jones, Susan 1S21 

Judson, David 1S22 

Judson. Aurelia 1822 L. 

Jones, Emily E 1841 

Judson, Kath. A. T.(Chappel).. 1851 L. 

Judd, Elizabeth A _ 

Judson, Dr. Fred. J. (soc. 1856) 1862 ...- 

Judson, Maria .-- 1851 L. 

Johnson, William H 

Judson, Henry 1856 L. 

Jennings, Josephine Maria 1857 P. 

Joy, Jesse 1858 L. 

Jordan, Augusta - 1858 P. 

Judson, Janette 1859 L. 

Judson. Harriet E. .._ 1861 P. 

Jackson, Daniel B 1861 L. 

Jackson, Adelia S. 1861 

Jones, Morris 1862 L. 

Jones, Henry W 1858 P. 

Jordan, Mary Ann (Piatt) i86g 

Jordan, Stephen (soc. 1850-1874) 

Johnson, Mary Walker 1869 P. 

Johnson, J. R. (soc. 1S70) 

Jones, Eliza S. (Webster) 1839 L. 

Jones, Rev. Henry (soc. 183S) ,. 1858 L. 

Judson, Charlotte 1857 P. 

Jackson, Henry S. (soc. 1870) _. 1861 L. 

Joy, Andrew Eliott _. 1878 L. 

Jones, Clara J. (Stillman) 1879 L. 

Jarvis, Emma Augusta 1880 P. 

Johnson, Lizzie Cecile 18S3 P. 

Jones, Florence 1884 P. 
acoby, Addie Florine 1886 P. 

Jones, Annie M 1S87 L. 

Johnson, Anna Tina 1894 P. 

Knapp, Ephraim 1814 R.C. 

Knapp, Sarah 1814 R.C. 

Kipping, George 1818 R.C. 



Dismission. 



dism. 
1866 
1868 
1868 



1830 
1830 



1830 
rem. 
1830 
1830 
1830 

1851 
1863 



abs. 1868 



1858 
i860 
i86i 
1861 
1863 

1873 
1866 
1858 



1894 

1888 
1888 



Death. 



Remarks. 



dau. of Howard G. 



~M. of Samuel W. 



i8ig,«. 78 from Episcopal Church. 
■w. of Ross. 
w. of Eliphalet. 



1838 



w. of Ezekiel. 
s. of Eliphalet. 



Feb. 1862, 



w. of Seth B. 

m. Daniel J. Day. 



a:. 58. 

w. of William H. 



1868, <j. 50 



1888 
1878 

1882 



■ Smith. 



w. of Daniel B. 



-w. of Stephen. 
w. of }. R. 
w. of Rev. Henry. 
will, of Henry. 



dau. of John J. Stillman. 



iu. of John. 



w. of Ephraim. 



-217 — 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission, 



Deatli. 



Remarks. 



Kippen, Betsey 1816 

Kippen, George 1816 

Knapp, Joseph 1821 vote 

Knapp, Abigail 1821 vote 

Knapp. Burr _ 1821 

Knapp, George 1821 

Knapp, Maria 1821 

Keeler, Sally bef. 1826 

Kippen, Mary E 1831 

Knapp, Eliza 1831 

Kelsey, Charles 1832 

Kenw'orth)', Martha 1841 P. 

Knapp, Mrs. Ephraim 1844 P. 

Kippen, Jane 1S45 L. 

King, Mary H 1853 

Kelsey, Mary (Newton) 1S35 

Keeler. Edward 

Kimball, 

Knowlton, Wm. S. (see. i870-'76) 

King.L. A - 

Kimball, JaneE 1855 P. 

Kimball, Henry 

Kippen, Anne 1858 P. 

Knapp, Anna E 1864 P. 

Keeler, Theodore (see. 1875) 

Keeler, Caroline 1844 P. 

Knowlton, Stella J852 L. 

Kelsev, Courtland (soc. 1856) .. 1858 P. 

Keele'r, Mary E. 1864 P. 

Keeler. ViUeroy E. (B) 1865 P. 

Keeler, Catharine M 1867 L. 

Kohlus, J. C. H. L. 1868 L. 

Kelsev, Clarence H 1874 P. 

Kelsey, Elizabeth B 1874 P. 

Kelsev, Sarah Hoyt .-- 1875 L. 

Kelsey, Stephen Clifford 1879 P. 

Kelsev. Louise Hoyt 1879 P. 

Kimberly, William Gilead 1881 L. 

Kimberly, Laura A. ._. 1881 L. 

Kirchoff, Charles Francis 1883 P. 

Kirchoff, Margaret F 1883 P. 

Keeler, Svlvester R 1884 L. 

Keeler, Mary B. 1884 L. 

Keeler, Jennie 1884 P. 

Keyes. Mary Virginia 1885 P. 

Kelsey, Annie Hoyt 1885 P. 

Knapp, George S 1885 L. 

Knapp, Jennie A 1885 L. 

Keeler. Birdie Raymond 18S8 P. 

Kellogg, Emily Peck 1894 P. 

Lewis, Daniel 1815 R.C. 

Lord, Daniel 1808 

Lord, Annie 1S08 

Lacey, Daniel, Jr 180S 

Lewi's, Mary- 1808 

Lacev, Catharine 1808 



1853 



1830 

1830 
1830 



1853 
abs. 

1853 
1856 
1853 



1856 
1869 



1886 

1888 
1S88 



1894 
1894 
1886 



1894 



1S30 



1864, <s. 72 

Dec. 1857 
Jan. 1857 

1822, ce. 18 

i85i,«.8o? 



bef. 1851 



■w. of George. 
w. of Joseph. 
m. Lacey. 



abt. 1871 

1884 
1894 

1884 



Ephraim d. 1831. 



w. of L. A. 
w. of Charles. 



w. of Henry. 



IV. of Henry. 

m. Mead, 1867. 



wid. of Edward. 
w. of Wm. S. 



dau. of Edward. 
w. of Justin S. 
-a: of Theo. A. 



s. of Courtland. [Tomlinson. 
w. of Clarence H., dau. of Ste. 
w. of Courtland. 
s. of Courtland. 
dau. of Courtland. 



V). of William G. 
w. of Charles F. 
■w. of Sylvester R. 



■w. of George S. 
dau. of Sylvester R. 



1825, <s. 64 



dau. of Courtland. 



w. of Daniel. 



;«. Daniel Lacey, Jr. 
wid. of . 



-2 1 8- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Deatli. 



Remarks. 



Lewis, Hulda. 1815 

Lockwood, Frederick 1815 

Lockwood, Rebecca 1815 

Lewis, Alanson 1S15 

Lacey, Ellen 1815 

Lockwood, Elizabeth- 1816 

Lewis, Eunice 1816 

Lacey, David, F.M. iSio i8i6 

Lacey, Laura -- 1816 

Lace)', Ruth 1816 

Lewis, Mary Ann 1S16 

Lacey, Sally _.. 1817 

Lockwood, Roe 1819 

Lord, Joshua 1 821 

Lewis, Fanny _ 1821 

Lockwood, Julia 1821 

Linsley, Philip 1823 

Lord, Willis 1S27 P, 

Lord, Sally 

Lacey, Maria -. 

Lewis, Julia 1821 

Lindsley, Phebe bef. 1826 

Love, Ale.\ander 1834 

Love, Margaret 1834 

Love, Sophia 1834 

Love, Janette - 1834 

Lockhart, Margaret 1834 

Lockwood, Lucretia 1836 

Lum, Edward 1836 

Lacey, Jane E 1S31 

Lord, Matthew.. 1835 

Lord, Jane 1835 - -. 

Loyd, Hannah 1S36 

Langridge, Levi 1839 L, 

LamoLix, - 1841 P, 

Lord, Anna 1845 

Leach, Caroline 1845 P, 

Logan, Eliza S 1847 L, 

Lament, Helen 1850 L, 

Lamont, Anna Maria 1850 L. 

Lyon, Marietta 1851 L. 

Lyon, Jarvis (soc. 1842-1S49) 

Lyon, Asahel (soc. 1S59) 

Lockwood, Minerva 1855 L. 

Loomis, James C. (soc. 1845-75) 

Lyon, Frederick H. 1850 

Lockwood, Hezekiah 

Lathrop, Margaret 1856 L, 

Lathrop, John W. (soc. 1857) 

Lacey, Mary Louisa 1858 P. 

Lewis, Margaret J 1858 P, 

Livingston, Julia A 1861 L, 

Lindley, Miss Mary A 1861 P, 

Lathrop, George L. (soc. l863-'68) 

Lord, Fanny I 1863 P. 

Lafarge, Fanny E 1864 P, 

Lane, Esther M 1864 P, 



1830 
1824 
rem. 
1863 
1830 
1826 

1822 
1822 
1830 
rem. 
rem. 

1830 
1830 



1S30 
1830 
1830 
1863 
1830 



dism. 

1S68 
1868 



1855 
1 868 
1868 



1870 

dism. 
1870 
1864 
1864 
1865 
1863 

1868 

1868 

1868 



w. of Daniel. 



1838 




1857 

1859, <s. 94 

1859 
1859 
1877 



w. of Alanson. 
w. of Jeremiah. 



w. of Alexander. 



w. of Rowland B. 



w. of Matthew. 
OT. Coster. 



lost at sea. 



wid. of . 

IV. of Asahel. 



w. of Hezekiah. 



w. of John W. 



1S64 lu. of 



219 — 



Name. 



.ittell, Margaret 

,yon, Louisa W 

■acey, Dea. Rowland B 

,yon, Emeline (soc. i86S) 

.oomis, Mary B 

.ernmon, Jane Cameron 

,yon, Bessie - 

,yon, Hanford (soc. 1834) 

,yon, Annie M 

.acey, Elizabeth R 

■athrop, Esther 

.yon, Adelaide -. 

.ewis, Catharine S 

.aMonte, Abram H 

.aMonte, Helen Dean 

.ewis, Dr. George F 

,ace}', David Sherman 

,acey, Henrietta Boardman 

.aMonte, May. - 

.aMonte, Isabel Dean 

.ockwood, Lizzie Chappelle 

.ineburg, William Golden 

.ineburgh, William Golden, Jr., 

.ineburgh, Ann Eliza 

.ewis, Julia Waterman.. 

.ewis, Margaret Isham. 

.ewis, Minnie Prescott 

,ewis, William Henry 

■angley, Lillie L ■? 

.evake, Eliz. Statira (Robinson) 

■yon, Katharine 

.ewis, Willis Grant 

,ewis, Hattie Allen 

,amson, Warren H 

,amson, Mary McC 

.amson, Harrison G 

.und, Peter Lauritz Petersen.. 

.emmon, Jennie G 

,ynn, Catharine C. 

,evy, Louis Lazar 

,e vy, May 

lorehouse, Abijah bef. 

leeker, Esther bef. 

lay, Henry --- 

lay, Almira 

lallett, William 

lallett, — 

lay, J oseph 

lay, Sophia 

lay, Sylvester 

lay, Grace 

lunn, Hannah .- 

lallett, Harriet 

lallett, Avis 



Admission. 


i86|; 




1S6S 


P. 


1837 


L. 


1838 





ISSS 


P. 


iSs7 


P. 


I8SS 


P. 


i8s8 


P. 


18.S8 


P. 


1859 


L. 


1S63 


P. 


1S64 


P. 


1863 


P. 


1867 


L. 


1867 


L. 


1868 


L. 


1874 


P. 


1874 


P. 


1874 


P. 


1874 


P. 


1876 


P. 


1878 


L. 


187S 


P. 


1878 


L. 


1878 


L. 


1878 


L. 


I87q 


P. 


1880 


P. 


1883 


L. 


1891 


L. 


1883 


P. 


18S3 


P. 


1884 


P. 


1884 


L. 


18S7 


L. 


1887 


L. 


1889 


P. 


1S90 


P. 


1890 


P. 


1S92 


L- 


1894 


P.' 


1S94 


P. 


1813 


R.C. 


1813 


R.C. 


1808 R.C.j 


1808 R.C.: 


I8II 


I.e. 


i8ii 


R.C. 


iSii 


tc. 


i8ii 


i.C. 


1811 


i.e. 


i8ii 


R.C. 


1815 


_ . _- 1 


1808 


j 


1815 





1815 


1 



Dismission. 



dism. 



1894 

1892 
.i88i 
1881 
1892 
1878 

1881 
1881 



1885 
1892 
1894 
1888 



rem. 
1830 



Death. 



Remarks. 



, le. 83 7viJ. of . 

w. of Asahel L. 



1879 
1894 



1829 



wiii. of Jarvis. 
wid. of James C. 
w. of Lionel. 



wi(f. of Hanford. 
w. of Rowland B. 
tv. of George L. 
iiau. of Hanford, 
w. of Dr. George F. 



■w. of Abram H. 



J. of Rowland B. 
t/au. of Rowland B. 
dau. of Abram H. 
dau. of Abram H. 
■w. of Frederick J. Lockwood, 
[i/au. Thos. C. Wordin. 



w. of W. G., Sr. 
wid. of Alanson F. 
dau. of Alanson F. 
■w. of Walter. 



TV. of Wm. A. 
w. of Burnside. 



■u. of Willis G. 



TV. of Warren H. 
s. of Warren H. 



dau. of Lionel. 



■w. of Louis L. 



w. of David. 
w. of Henry, 
w, of William. 
w. of Joseph. 



w. of Sylvester. 
70. of James ? 



— 22C 



Name. 



Admission. 



Meeker, Nancy 

Meeker, Susan - 

Monlross, David Ira 

Merwin, Sally - -- 

Maloney, Emily 

Munn, Henry 

Milton, St. John 

Mallett, Lauretta _.- 

Miles, Susan 

Morehouse, Mary 

Morse, Sally -. 

Mall cry, Daniel 

Munson, Eliza 

Moore, Luther 

Mead, Rufus, F. M. 1827 

Mead, Elizabeth 

Middlebrook,Ephr'm, F.M. 1826 

Middlebrook, Betsey 

Morris, Eliza E 

Mills, Polly 

Moore, Ann S bef. 

Moore, Catharine 

Merserole, Mary L... - 

Milne, Huldah _-_ 

Morehouse, Roxana 

Merril, Charlotte _ 

McCauley, Irene M 

Mott, Joseph 

Miner, Isaac 

Miner, Esther I. 

Miner, Charles M 

Miner, Harriet H _ 

Marsh, Helen C. j 

Mallard, Caroline 

Middlebrook, E. B. (soc. 1868) . 

Marsh, Egbert (soc. 1856) 

Meeker, Mary E _ 

Meeker, George H 

Mallory, Benajah 

Mallory, Catharine 

Murdock, Isabella 

Murphy, Mary Ann 

Mallory, George 

Murdock, Hugh 

Mills, Thomas 

Mills, Emma 

Mills, Susan W. 

Mallory, Eliza B. 

Mallory, Thomas D. 

Marsh, William E., (soc. 1861) . 

Morris, Lydia E... 

Morris, Joseph L 

Marsh, Dr. William E 

Marsh, Anna 

Marsh, David H 

Marsh, Susan 



1815 
1815 
1817 
1817 
1821 
1S21 
1821 
1S21 
1821 
1S23 
1823 
1S25 
1826 
1827 
1828 
1828 
1828 
1828 



1857 
1855 



1S58 
185S 
1858 
185S 
1857 



Dismission. 



1828 
1827 , 

1834 . 

1835 . 
1832 
1836 
1839 
1838 
1844 
1851 
1851 
1S51 
1851 
1852 
1884 
1845 



1856 
1856 
1857 
1857 



1S59 



1828 
dism. 
rem. 
1830 

rem. 
1830 



1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 

1841? 
rem. 
rem. 
dism. 



dism. 
abs. 

1868 
1868 
1858 
1S86 



1858 
1862 
1862 



1S62 



1870 

1858 
1858 

1861 
1861 



Death. 



1853 
i823 



aft. 1856 



1879 



1871 



Remarks. 



w. of Charles of Stratford. 



m. Curtis. 



1862, <?. 
1869, <?, 
1867, <?. 



1867 
1868, a. 



58 



w. of Samuel, 
fr. New Milford. 



TV. of Rufus. 
w. of Ephraim. 



w. of Mark. 



w. of • 



w. of Isaac. 



w. of Egbert. 
■w. of William. 



w. of Geo. H. 
w, of Benajah. 



w. of Thomas. 
w. of Benj. K. 
w. of Thomas D. 



w. of Joseph L. 



-221- 



Name. 



Admission. I Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



loore, Elizabeth 1864 P. 

loore, James H., (soc. 1857-68) 

lills, Abbie M 1867 L. 

lills, Walter K 

lead, Annie K. 

lead, George W 

liddlebrook, Mary B 1850 L. 

larsh, Nancy W 185S P. 

lott, Grisel A._ 



loore, Elizabeth W 

liddlebrook, Mary Ida.. 

lills, Benjamin K. (soc. 1857). 

lorris, Jeannette. 

liddlebrook. Stiles M 

liddlebrook, William N 

liddlebrook, Jessie Elizabeth . 

liddlebrook, Clarence M 

lathern, Elizabeth (Aucher) 

lott, Anna E 

lott, Josephine Augusta 

loody, Ella Aurora 

lahony, Emily Belle (Fuller).. 

liner, Mary J 

larsh, Egbert 

lathern. Bertha 

liller, Rachel Buckley 

liller, Frederick Buckley 

loore, Margaret Amanda 

liller, Elizabeth 

lahr, Mrs. Frances 

lartensdale, Carolina 

lathern, Charlotte 

liddlebrook, Lillian Louise 

lott, Ann Helen (Orr) 

lott, Willard Henry 

lott, Edward Henry. 

lorris. Lulu Evelyn 

lott, Nellie Louise. 

IcGrath, Helen Fannie 

leeker, Lucy Jones 



1844 L. 
1873 L. 



1874 
1S74 



876 Rest. 
1877 P. 



878 
1878 
1878 
1878 
1877 
1879 
1880 
1880 
1880 
1879 
1884 
1885 
18S4 
1884 
1884 
1885 
1885 
1888 
1889 
1888 
l8go 
1890 
1890 
1891 
1894 
1886 
1892 



fichols, Polly . 
lichols, David. 
lichols, 



lichols, Phebe 

lash, William Burr. 

lichols, Mary 

'ails, Esther 

ash, Esther 

ichols, Lavinia 

orthrup, Liba 

orthrup. Phebe 

lorthrup, Eliza 

lichols, David B 



1811 

1815 

1S15 

i 1815 

' 1S28 

1815 

1815 

1815 

1815 .... 

1821 

1822 

1822 L. 
1822 L. 
1826?.... 



1870 
1870 



1878 
1865 

1886 



1886 



1S86 
1886 



1830 
1830 

1830 



1830 
1830 



1867 w. of Jas. H. 
ui. of Walter K. 



abt. 1 87 1 
1883 

1883 

1885 
1894 

1887 



1838 



w. of Dr. E. B. 

w. of Wm. E. 

wtd. of Joseph. 

w. of Jas. S. 

■w. of Clarence M., </au. of 

[Peleg Bronson. 
Jau. of John H. 

s. of Stiles M. 
w. of Wm. N, 
s. of Charles. 
w. of John. 
wid. of John J. 
dau. of John J. 



TV. of Jas. P. 



s. of Rachel. 



w. of Willard H. 
s. of John J. 



zv. of Edward F. 



to South Carolina. 
IV. of David. 

TO. of Stiles. 

from Fairfield. 



to South Carolina. 



TV. of Liba. 
TV. of Norman. 



— 222- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Norlhrup, Nicholas, F.M. 1S23. 

Nichols, Wheeler 

Nichols, Jane M 

Nash, Wi'lliam B 

Nash, Ruth Martha 

Nichols, Eliza 

Norlhrup, Caroline bef. 

Naramore, Marj' 

Nichols, Nancy — - 

Niles, Samuel (soc. 1834) 

Nichols. Lucinda 

Nichols, Charles A _ 

Nichols, Lucy (Betts) 

Nichols, Nelson C 

Naramore, Susan W 

Nicholson, Samuel G. 

Nichols, Eli T. (soc. 1S56)- 

Nash, William B., M.D 

Nash, Anna ., 

Nichols, Eliza L.. ■] 

Norton, Sarah E. (Averill) 

Naramore, Caroline (Worden).. 

Naramore, William W 

Nichols, Stephen 

Nichols, Emeline 

Nichols, Eliza N. (Faulkner)... 

Nicholson, Harriet E 

Nash, Dr. David H 

Nash, Susan 

Norton, Wilfrid E 

Nash, Isabel Bullock.- 

Nicliols, Frances S 

Northrop, Joseph Walter 

Northrop, Mary Elvira 

Naramore, Annie B.- 

Nash, Susan Sterling 

Nothnagle, Lucyjohnson 

Nichols, Martha 



1827 
1827 
1827 
1827 
1827 
1828 
1826 
1831 
1834 
1841 
1S44 
1851 
1844 
1847 
1858 



Oviatt, Mary _ 

Oviatt, Nancy 

Oviatt, Daniel B -- 

Ogden, Lucinda A. 

Olnistead, Eliza 

Oviatt, George A 

O'Neil, Esther bef. 

Oakley, William B 

Oakley, Ann Eliza (Fancher)... 

Olmstead, Hirain 

Olmsted, Julia W 

Overton, Samuel 

Oakley, Mary M 

Oakley, Hezekiah - 

Overton, George S 

Overton, Deborah 

Overton, Mary Isabel (Stratton) 



1864 . 

1862 

1862 

1S71 

1884 

1 868 

1839 

1844 

1831 

1838 

1S41 

1858 

1862 

1862 

1868 

1876 

:SS4 

1885 

1885 

1889 

1889 

1891 

1864 

1S15 

1816 , 

:8i8 

1821 

1S27 

1S27 

1826 

1S44 

1844 

1844 

1S47 
1S55 
1867 



Dismission. 



1855 
1869 



1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1830 
dism. 



1859 



1887 



1887 
18S7 



1830 

1830 
1827 

1832 

1859 
1859 

dism. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



1863, <s. 72 
1850 



1868, «. 64 



1867,^.49 
1872 



1893 
1890 

1893 

1882 
1888 



w. of Nicholas. 
wid. . 



Gould. 

to New Haven. 
TV. of Nelson C. 



m. Dr. Abelardo DeLuna. 



w. of William B. 

w. of Walter. 

70. of Wilfrid E. 
10. of William W. 



7v. of Stephen. [C. Niles, 

wid. of David B., wid. of Sam'l, 
w. of Samuel. 



w. of Dr. David H. 
w, of Andrew E. 



w. of Joseph Walter. 
dau. of Andrew E. 
wid. of Eli. 
■w. of Daniel. 



m. Ayres. 

wid. of . 

to Yale College. 



i860, <?. 52 
1869, <?. 40 



1893 



w. of William B. 

w. of . 

wid. of Hezekiah. 



-aid. of Samuel. 
w. of George S. 



— 22' 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks, 



Odell, William Sair 

Ddell. Kate Mortimer 

Dckington, Mary E 

3tt, Minnie L. 

Drford, Margaret Frances. 
DIaidatter, Hilda C 



Parrott, Abraham bef. 



Parrott, 



.bef. 



Parrott, Abraham, Jr bef. 

Parrott, Lucy W bef. 

Piatt, Moses bef. 

Piatt, bef. 

Porter, Ellen 

Penfield, Hannah 

Pierce, Clarissa 

Parsons, Mercy 

Peabody, Cornelia Maria 

Price, Zalmon 

Peck, Eliza 

Porter, Polly Ann 

Perry, Sally 

Post, Edward 

Porter, Otis 

Pool, Abigail 

Porter, Sarah M... 

Porter, Edward ..bef. 

Peet, Lucy bef. 

Porter, Samuel bef. 

Parrott, Esther bef. 

Piatt, Lavinia 

Peck, Harriet 

Parrott, Legrand 

Parrott, Charlotte 

Porter, Elizabeth 

Page. Emily B 

Porter, Edward E 

Piersall, Mary J _ 

Peet, Seeley 

Preston, John (soc. 1850-1880).. 
Page, Rev. Benjamin St. John.. 

Peck, Benedict 

Pye, Grace M __ 

Parsons, Lavinia Piatt _. 

Parsons, Frederick A. (soc. 1850) 

Preston, Catharine Ann 

Parrott, Julia B 

Peters, Mary G 

Perry, John L 

Peet, Gordon L 

Pease, Lucinda E. 

Patterson, Stephen J. (soc. 1850) 

Patterson, Harriet S. 

Piatt, Mary C 

Parrott, Henry R. (soc. 1856)... 



880 

88t 
88 1 
883 
886 
888 



813 R.C. 

815 ---. 
813 R.C. 
8i5 .... 
813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 
813 R.C. 

S09 

812 

815-... 

816 .... 

821 

821 

821 

822 .. 
827 
827 
827 
827 
827 
826 .. 
826 ., 
830.. 
S30 .. 
831 .. 
831 .. 
831 -. 
831 -. 
839 
847 
847 
851 .. 



846 .... 
853 P. 
853 L. 
857 L. 



857 P. 

858 P. 
858 P. 



859 
861 



862 
863 



1884 
1884 
1885 



1830 



disra. 

1842 

rem. 

1830 
dism. 

1830 

1830 
1830 



1859 
dism. 
1868 
1868 

1854 
dism. 

1853 



1854 
1S56 

1853 
1872 
1S72 
1862 

i860 
1868 
1872 
1862 



w. of William S. 

w. of B. F. 

■w. of George C. 



w. of Abraham. 



w. of Abraham, Jr. 



1867,(^.86 



1861 
1842 
1852 

1856 



1859 



■w. of Moses. 
■w. of Samuel. 

wid. of , from Fairfield. 

w. of Nathaniel. 
w. of Titus. 
m. Cotj'. 



■w. of Starr. 
w. of Tolman. 



wid. of ■ 



w. of Legrand. 

w. of Rev. Benjamin St. J. 



wid. of • 
w. of — 



w. of Stephen J. 



-224- 



Name. 



Admission, 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Pond, John E. (soc. 1868) 

Pond, Maria N.(Niles) \\sll L 

Preston, Nettie E 1864 P. 

Parsons, J. Morton. 1865 L. 

Porter, Clarence D 

Price, Betsey 1867 L, 

Parsons, Harriet Alice 1S67 P, 

Pitcher, Miss Mary Louise 1867 P. 

Parrott, Fred. W. (soc. lS37-'82) 

Prescott, James B. : 

Piatt, Benjamin W 1831 

Peck. Jennetta 1831 

Parrott, Mary Ann 1832 

Pease, Hannah 1833 

Preston, Phebe Ann 1839 L. 

Prout, Asenath 1842 P. 

Porter, Henry H 1856 P. 

Porter, Eliza F. H 1S48? P. 

Parrott, Henry S 1858 P. 

Perkins, Mary J. M 1858 P. 

Preston, Alice A. 1858 P. 

Parrott, Annie J. (Garland) 1863 P. 

Parrott, Lucretia A 1867? P. 

Prescott, Juliette D _ 1S68 L. 

Pond, Edwin Walter 1866 L. 

Porter, Isabella (Mills) 1S66 P. 

Palmer, Rev. Charles Ray, D.D. 1872 L. 

Palmer, Mary Barnes 1872 L. 

Porter, Fanny Sherwood 1874 P. 

Paddock, Susie Roberta. 1877 P. 

Petersen, John 1876 L. 

Petersen, Mina 1876 L. 

Peck, Rev. Charles Huntington 1877 L. 

Peck, .^nna Crossman 1S77 L, 

Prescott, Lucy H..- 1S79 P. 

Preston, Mary Emily (Stillman) 1S80 P. 

Peck, Maria E 1882 L. 

Parrott, Hattie G 18S2 P. 

Palmer, .-Mfred Barnes 1S83 P. 

Palmer, Edith Burr 1885 P. 

Petersen, Thekla Josephine... 1884 P. 

Petersen, John M. Trombold ._ 1885 P. 

Petersen, Minnie Elizabeth 1885 P. 

Plumb, Luzerne D 1880 P, 

Poirier, Elizabeth P. (Warner).. 1884 P. 

Patterson, Harriet S 1862 P. 

Pond, Elise Falconer 1889 P, 

Pagels, E. H. Victor i8gi L. 

Peck, Vincent C I8q2 L. 

Porter, Emily 1883 P, 

Palmer, Maria Waud 1887 L, 

Palmer, Harriet Shepard 1887 L, 

Pierce, George E.., 1894 L, 

Pierce, Florence H 1894 L, 

Pierce, Florence C 1894 P, 



1865 

1871 
1868 

1870 



187S 



1890 



1879 
1879 
18S2 
1882 

1894 



1892 



IV. of John E. 

m. Isaac B. Lefergy. 



1869, «. 31 



1883 
1883 



1890 

1895 

18S8 



za. of . 

■w. of J. Morton. 



w. of John. 
w. of Hiram. 



[Middlebrook. 
w. of Robert, (/an. of Dr. E. B. 
dati. of John. 
zv. of Henry R. 
■w. of Frederick W. 
7uid. of James B. 



w.ofClarenceD.jfl'aK.ofThomas 
Pastor Emeritus, Sept. i, 1S95. 
w. of Rev. C. Ray. 
i/a«. of Henry H. 
w. of Miner H. 



— 


7u. of John. 


.... 


w. of Charles H. 


— 


■w. of Dr. James C. 


1893 

1892 


dan. of Henry R. 
J. of Rev. C. Ray. 
dan. of Rev. C. Ray. 
dau. of John. 


.... 


a/, of John M. 


— 


7v. of George (;. 
w. of Samuel J. 
dau. of John H. 































-225- 



Name. 



Admission, 



Quintard, John H i860 L. 



Risley, Hezekiah 

Risley, Laura 

Rockwell, David S 

Ryan, Marsh - 

Robinson, James W. 

Riggs, Harriet 

Robinson, Julia 

Rood, Edwin 

Robinson, Maria C _ 

Rogers, Lucy A. 

Rogers, Abner 

Rogers, Lucy M._ 

Reid, Martha 

Ross, Betsey 

Rogers, Isaac R 

Richards, Rev. George (Pastor). 

Richards, Ann Maria 

Richards, Josephine E 

Richards, Anna W. 

Richards, George J 

Robie, John A. (soc. 1868-1S74) 

Rolf, Margaret E. A 

Richards, William Rogers 

Robinson, Sarah E. 

Rowland, Catharine 

Rogers, Abby L. 

Russell, Rev. Charles H. 

Russell, Anna A. 

Robie, Sibyl B 

Rogers, Samuel T 

Russell, Mary Tallman 

Robinson, John H 

Robinson, M. J. 

Strong, Joseph bef. 

Summers, Stephen bef. 

Sterling, David- bef. 

Sterling, Sarah bef. 

Sterling, Philip bef. 

Sterling, Ruth ..bef. 

Sterling, Jesse, F.M. 1809 ..bef. 

Sterling, Sally bef. 



Standish, John 

Standish, Naomi , 

Seeley, Joseph 



Seeley, Ruth 

Snow, John 

Snow, Hannah 

Sherman, Ira j 

Summers, Alice 

Sherman, Mary, 2d 

15 



809 R.C. 
809 R.C. 

821 

831 .... 
S31 --- 
S39 .... 
844 P. 



Dismission. 



845 
856 
856 
S56 
856 
859 
864 



866 
867 
867 
867 
868 



868 
870 

859 
861 
865 
864 
868 
867 
870 
882 
886 
886 



Sn R.C 
S13R.C, 
813 R.C 
813 R.C 
813 R.C, 
813 R.C, 
8r3 R.C 

816 

813 R.C, 

816 

809 R.C 
809 R.C 
809 R.C 

810 

S09 R.C 
819 R.C 
819 R.C, 
819 R.C, 
856 P. 

808 

808 



1862 



1833 
rem. 
1868 
1S50 
1868 

1845 
1861 
i860 
abs. 
i860 



1871 
1871 
1871 
1871 
1871 



1871 



1880 

1885 
1887 
1887 



1830 
1830 



Death. 



1866, <s. 73 



bef. 1 886 

1895 
1888 



1873 



1869, a. 76 

1823, IS. 62 
1832 



Remarlcs. 



w. of Hezekiah. 



w. of James. 
w. of . 



w. of Abner. 

wid. of Spooner. 



w. of Rev. George. 
i/au, of Rev. George. 
tfau. of Rev. George. 



m. James Collin. 

IV. of George L. (soc. 1S56?) 
w. of George M. 
■w. of Isaac. 

w. of Charles H. 
mid. of John A. 



w. of John H. 

■und. of . 

w. of Philip. 

7tf. of Jesse. 
■IV. of John. 



w. of Joseph. 
TV. of John. 



7V. of • 



-226 



Name. 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarks. 



Smith, Phebe..- 

Summers, Urania 

Summers, Betty 

Stur^es, Isaac 

Sturges, Joseph Porter (soc.i 834) 

Sturges, Sarah 

Seeley, Betsey.. __ 

Sherm.an, Dea. Isaac (soc. 1809) 

Sterling, Dea. Silvanus 

Sherman, Maria. 

Sterling, Polly.. 

Seeley, Ruth - 

Slater, Joel 

Seeley, Mary 

Skinner, Abigail — 

St.andish, Naomi 

Smith, Mehitable 

Seeley, Nancy — 

Spinning, Elijah Crane 

Shipman, Harriet — 

Sherman, Laura 

Selby, Maria Antoinette 

Sherman, Anson 

Sherman, Caroline 

Sterling, Ann Strong 

Summers, Susan — 

Sterling, Legrand 

Summers, Lucinda Maria 

Sterling, George 

Shepherd, Minerva 

Shepherd, Mehitable 

Sherman, Mary 

Sterling, Jane E bef. 

Southworth, Mary ..bef. 

Spinning, Salome bef. 

Summers. Hulda {Wakele3') bef. 

Sterling, Emma. bef. 

St. John, Milton bef. 

Seeley, Polly 

Sherman, bef. 

Sherman, Ann Eliza bef. 

Sterling, Capt. Danl., F.M. 1808 

Sherwood, Mary 

Sherwood, Sally — 

Sterling, Deborah... .bef. 

Slillman, Emily 

Stillman, Clarissa 

Sherwood, Albert E. 

Sherwood, Dea. David 

Sherwood. Anna 

Stillman, Henry W 

Stillman, Ascnath 

Sherman, jane E 

Sterling, Eloisa 

Sterling, Margaret A 

Sherman, Eliza 

Smith, Harriet 



808 . 
80S - 
80S . 
S09 . 

809 . 
809 . 
809 . 
S12 . 
S12 . 
812 . 
S12 . 
815. 
815 ■ 
S15 ■ 
815 . 

815 - 
815. 

816 . 
818 . 
819. 
819. 
821 . 
821 . 

521 . 
821 . 
821 . 
821 . 

522 . 
827 
827 
827 
827 
826 . 
826 . 
S26 , 
826 . 
S26 
826 , 

S15 . 
830 , 
S30 , 
828 , 
828 . 
817. 

830 . 

831 . 



831 . 

831 

831 

831 

831 

831 

S31 

S31 

831 

831 



1830 



dism. 



dism. 



1834 



rem. 
rem. 



1S27 
1830 
1827 
1830 

1830 
1833 



rem. 
1823 



1868 



1837 



m. Gouge. 

dau. of Elnathan. 
w. of Matthew. 



aft. 1856 
1823, <x. 39 



to Greenfield Hill. 
■w. of Isaac. 
w. of James I. 
1863, «. 75|?«. Maria Burroughs ; j, of David 
1848 I [and Rebecca (French). 

1865, «. n 1". of Isaac. 

1866, «. 74 gave the parsonage to cliurch. 
w. of Joseph. 



1875 



1853 
1858 
18S1 

1835 



i860 
1871 

1857 



w. of Nathaniel L. 
w. of John. 



wid. of — 
w. of Ira. 



1S77 
1837, «. 



1853, «. 
1877 

1848 
1869, ce. 

1875, <F, 

1868, <S. 

1873 
1852 
1889 
1874 
1857 
1852 
1866, «. 



54 



Moore. 



■w. of Dr. William. 



w. of Sherwood. 



w. of Elijah Crane. 
w. of Anson or Aaron. 
w. of David, Jr. 

w. of David V. 

w. of Anson. 

wid. of Isaac, Jr. 

s. of Abijah and Eunice. 



w. of Seeley. 



dau. of Wyllys. 
w. of Wyllys. 



J-. of Stephen. 
IV. of David. 



7w. of Henry W. [man. 

m. R. B. Lacey, dau. Isaac Sher- 
w. of Legrand. 

m. Hussey. 

m. J. G. Adams. 



-227- 



Name, 



Admission. 



Dismission. 



Death. 



Remarlss. 



Street, Debby Ann 1831 

Smith, William - 1831 

Smith, Howard (soc. 1S35) 1831 

Smith, Lucina D 1831 

Soiithmayd, Thomas 1832 

Smith. Isaac 1832 

Selleck. Deborah 1833 

Shadbolt, Robert 1S34 

Samis, Abigail 

Stevens, Margaret 1834 

Sherwood, Eliza 1835 P. 

Suydam, William 1835 

Suydam, Sarah 1835 

Smith, Mary Ann 1837 

Selleck, Phebe.. 1838 

Suydam, Julia A 1838 L. 

StiUman, John J | IsSo "'l. 

Stillman, Margaret J 1838 

Suydam, Martha .- 1839 P. 

Sterling, Hannah (Judson) 1840 P. 

Smith, Mary bef. 1841 

Spinning, Caroline 1844 P. 

Spinning, Anna M._ 1845 

Spinning, Elizabeth 1845 P. 

Selleck, - 1841 L. 

Seeley, Maria 1845 P. 

Stillman, Grace L _ 1845 L. 

Stillman, Arabella 1845 P. 

Stillman, Caroline S. 1847 L. 

Stillman, John J 1S47 L. 

Seelev, Morgan 1852 L. 

Seele'y, Sally 1852 L. 

Seeley, David V 

Sherwood, Seeley 

Stillman, Wyllys.. 

Smith, Edwin bef. 1S70 

Stillman, Emily. 

Sterling, Nathaniel 

Strong, Henry P 1853 L. 

Strong, Sarah Adelia 1853 L. 

Sherman, Starr_. 1854 L. 

Sherman, Harriet 1854 L. 

Sprague, Nathan G 1854 L. 

Slosson, Henrv V 1S55 P. 

Sterling, Emily 1855 P. 

Smith, Evelina 1857 L. 

Seeley, Elizabeth A 1S55 P. 

Smith, A.-- 

Sterlins;, Walter 1858 P. 

Sherman, Henry B 1858 P. 

Staples, Georgiana A 1858 P. 

Sterling. Mary M. H 1857 L, 

Smith, Rev. Matson M 1859 L, 

Smith, Mary S 1859 L, 

Sammis, Franklin.. - 1859 L, 



exc. 1834 



dism. 
dism. 
1867 

1867 
1881 



dism. 
1S59 

1870 
1870 
1870 



1868 

1856 
1856 
i860 
i860 

1855 

1859 
1870 
1861 



1862 

1865 
1865 
1871 



■w. of Warren W. 



1834 
1859 
1868, a. 59|z«. of Albert E. 



1845 



\wid. of Rufus Burr. 



1852 Iot. of Capt. Daniel. 
1849 ^wid. of . 



1867, <r. 40 



1852, (?. 71 
aft. 1891 



1858, «. 36 
i860 



1870, ce. 55 
1859 

i860 



m. John F. Wheaton. 
w. of Warren W. 



VI. Hickson Fowler. 
w. of John J. 



■w. of Henry P. 
w. of Starr. 



in Illinois. 



dau. of Morgan. 

w. of . 

engineer, Housatonic R. R. 



■w. of Legrand. 



—228— 



Name. 



Admission. Dismission. 



Sammis, Sabra V 1859 L. 

Scott, Elizabeth 1859 L. 

Sterling, Nancy 1859 L. 

Sanderson, Harriet J 1859 L. 

Smith, William E.- 1859 P. 

Smith, Julia 1S60 L, 

Sturdevant, Mary S.. 1S61 

Shaw, Mary Jane 1862 L. 

Storrs, Fanny A 1S63 P. 

Sanderson, Mary R.. 1863 P. 

Seeley, Ezra N 1863 P. 

Smith, Norman W 1863 P. 

Smith, Emily Stewart 1863 P. 

Stewart, Adelia A 1864 P. 

Stewart, Imogene 1864 P. 

Staniford, Henry E. 1864 L. 

Stewart, John L. (soc. 1856-1868) 

Smith, Lvdia A 1865 P. 

Smith, Edward W. .._ 1865 P. 

Sanderson, George W... 1866 P. 

Stevenson, John C 1866 L. 

Stevenson, Eleanor A. (McGrath) 1866 L. 

St. John, Joseph 1867 P.] 

St. John, Anna E.._ 1867 P. 

St. John, George A 1867 L. 

St. John, Adaline 1867 L. 

Slosson, J. P 1867 L. 

Scoville, Seward 

Scoville, Lemuel.. 1867 L. 

Scoville, Augusta C. 1867 

Sanborne, Anson 1861 P. 

Sanborne, Hannah 1861 P. 

Sanderson, Emma J. 1868 P. 

Stratton, Henrietta _ 1869 L. 

Sterling, Lorenzo B... 1831 P. 

Selleck, Warren W _. 1833 L. 

Smith, Sally 1837 L. 

Sprague, Lucretia E 1854 L. 

Sterlmg, Sabra S 1852 L. 

Sage, Dr. Henry L 1857 L. 

Selleck, Eliza D 1858 P. 

Spinning, Harriet A 1856 P. 

Spinning, Anna B. (Lendeveg).- 1858 L. 

Smith, Elizabeth 1857 L. 

Smith, Horace 1858 P. 

Spinning, Theodore A 1858 P. 

Spinning, Edgar G 1862 L. 

Sterling, Henrietta E. 1862 L. 

Sanderson, John H. 1859 L. 

Sanderson, Jane 1859 L. 

Seeley, Carrie A 1863 P. 

Sherwood, Charles 1864 P. 

Stewart, Marv L 1864 P. 

Smith, Eli C.'... 1864 P. 

Stillman, Horace C 1864 P. 

Scott, Samuel T 1863 P. 



1871 



1867 
1867 
1864 

1865 

1867 
1865 
1865 



1870 
1866 



1870 
1870 
1870 
1870 
1870 

1868 
1868 
1862 
1862 

1870 



Death. 



1863,^.78 



1867,^.21 



April 7, 



1881 
1884 

^858 

1880 

1883 



1885 
1891 



w. of John H. 



IV. of William E. 
w. of . 



dau. of John H. 



to South Church. 
m. S. B. Terry. 
1866, ^, 24, Soldier. 



w. of John C. 
s. of George A. 
dau. of George A. 



Remarks. 



w. of George A. 



w. of Lemuel. 



wid. of Edwin. 
w, of Nathan G. 
wid. of Walter. 



wid. of Warren W. 
w. of Edgar. 
w. of Theodore A. 
70. of Horace. 



wid. of Legrand. 



dau. of John H. 
dau. of Morgan. 



wid. of John L. 
J. of Horace. 
s. of John. 



-229 — 



Name. 



Admission. 



Sage, Lavinia Todd 1865 L. 

StiUman, Grace M 1868 L. 

Stillman, Sarah M 1869 P. 

StiUman, Caroline A. G 1873 L. 

Selbie, Patrick ._ 1874 P. 

Stanley, H. Dwight 1874 P. 

Stanley, Emma A. (B.) 1874 L. 

Sammis, Francis B. 1875 L. 

Sterling, Ada C - 1874 P. 

Stewart, Ruth 1874 L. 

Sherwood, Emma C 1874 P. 

Sherwood, Clara Ann 1874 P. 

Smith, Mary E. (Wright) 1875 L, 

Smith, Horace Winfield 1876 P. 

Stillman, Albert W.. 1876 P, 

Spencer, J. Parker 1876 P, 

Sanderson, Hattie Alice 1876 P. 

Sanborn, Isabella Maria 1877 P. 

Sterling, Maria McCoy .-. 1876 P. 

Stark, Dana (Hatch).. 1878 L, 

Stewart, John Wesley 1877 P. 

Sammis, Frances Allen 1878 P, 

Stillman, Caroline M 1880 L. 

Smith, Julia Elizabeth 1880 L. 

Sterling, John Tolman i88r L, 

Sterling, Harriet Elizabeth 1881 L. 

Sterling, Matilda L. (Werner) .. 1882 L 

Stillman, Helen Blakeman 1882 P. 

Sirrett, Sarah M 1883 L 

Stevenson, Lucinda 1883 P. 

Sanderson, Lucien 1884 L. 

Swan, Fanny Bixby 1884 L. 

Swan, Clarence 1884 P. 

Sanborn, Joseph Franklin 1884 P 

Sprague, Lucy D 1884 L. 

Spencer, Samuel C. 1S84 P, 

Spencer, Annie Elizabeth 1884 P. 

Smith, Ann, Mrs 1884 L. 

Stillman, Emma Maria 1884 L, 

Squires, Ida May 1884 L. 

Squires, Emily Loretta 1884 L, 

Salisbury, Newton Hough 1884 P. 

Salisbury, Catharine Taylor 18S4 P, 

Stevens, Mary E 18S4 L, 

Seirup, Hans -. 1884 L. 

Sterling, Charles Sherwood 1885 P. 

Sharp, Robert Walter 1885 L. 

Smith, Chary Couch... 1885 P. 

Spinning, Hattie Louisa 1S85 P. 

Spinning, Verna Balcom 1885 P. 

Simonds, Henry D 1887 L, 

Simonds, Fanny Abigail .- 1887 L. 

Sterling, Mary Louisa (Osborn). 1887 L. 

Sage, Bertha Wheeler 1886 P. 

Spaulding, Kate M, 1886 L. 

Sirrett, Susan Jane 1888 P, 



Dismission. 



I8g3 
1881 



1887 



1885 



1881 
1893 



1S95 



1891 
iS8g 



1890 

1887 



1892 
1892 



Death. 



1882 
1895 



1884 
1894 



1894 



w. of Dr. Henry L. 
da». of William M. 
w. of William M. 
TO. of F. M. 



w. of H. D. 



Remarks. 



dau. of Walter. 

w. of Hector L. [terson. 

w. of Charles, dau. of S. J. Pat- 
dau. of Dea. David. 
TO. of Eli C. 
s. of Horace, 
of William M. 

dau. of John H. 

TO. of Joseph F. 

wid. of Daniel H. 

TO. of Leonard H., </fl«.of Leavitt. 

TO. of Francis B. 

TO. of H. M. 
s. of Charles. 
TO. of John T. 

dati. of William M. 
wid. of William. 
wid. of William G. 



TO. of Clarence. 



TO. of Arthur J. 
w. of Samuel C. 
TO. of Frank P. 



TO. of Newton H. 



dau. of Horace. 



TO. of Henry D. 
TO. of Charles S. 



-230— 



Admission. 



Smith, Mary Esther Wright 1889 P. 

Sirrett, Robert Harry 1890 P. 

Sibley, Sarah Augusta l8g2 L. 

Seward, Daniel B.(soc. 1886)... 1891 P. 

Sawyer, Andrew 1890 L. 

Sawyer, IMary F 1890 L. 

Sawyer, Alice M _ 1890 L. 

Sherman, Florence A. De 1892 P. 

Smith, Daniel Sanford 1894 P. 

Smith, Ada Dearborne 1894 P. 

Treadwell, Sophia... 1S07 

Tomlinson, Caleb 1S15 

Thorp, Capt. Joel 1819 

Thorp, Polly 1819 

Thompson, Betsey _ — 1821 

Thompson, John M.?... 1821 

Thatcher, Daniel. 1828 L. 

Tomlinson, Susan 

Tuttle, Thankful 1816 

Thompson, Marietta 1821 

Treadwell, Mercy bef. 1826 

Thompson, Fanny bef. 1826 

Treadwell, Mary 1830 

Tobie, Mrs. Thomas bef. 1830 

Tweedy, Samuel L — 1831 

Thatcher, Julia 1831 

Thompson, William 1832 

Tracey, Hannah Graves 1836 P. 

Thompson, Nobles 1841 L. 

Thompson, Maria, Mrs 1841 L. 

Taylor, Elizabeth _ 1845 P. 

Tomlinson, Mary H. (Faulkner) 1847 L. 

Thurston, Samuel D... 1852 L. 

Thurston, Jane Maria 1852 L. 

Tracy, George F. (soc. 1847) 1858 P. 

Tomlinson, Stephen (soc. 1863). - 

Tracy, Ebenezer 1853 L. 

Tracy, Phebe _ 1853 L. 

Towne, Rev. Joseph H 1855 L. 

Towne, Eliza I. C 1855 L. 

Taylor, Rev. __ 

Thorpe, Catharine 1855 P- 

Terry, Juliette 1855 L. 

Terry, Theodore 

Trulock, Marshall S 1863 P. 

Toucy, Levi 

Toucy, Esther M. (Ayres) _ 

Tomlinson, Mary (Linsley) 1864 P. 

Tracy, Mary Fanny 1864 P. 

Trulock, Victoria B 1864 P, 

Turner, MaryC 1858 P. 

Treat, Miss Mary B 1869 L, 

Thatcher, Eunice S 1863 L 

Todd, Mary C. (Piatt) 1863 P, 

Tracey, Helen L 1864 P, 

Thompson, Gideon (soc. 1824).. i86g 



Dismission. 



1893 



1894 
1894 

1893 



1830 
1830 
1830 



1857 

dism. 
1864 



1858 
1858 



1868 
1868 
1858 
1858 



1857 
1857 

i86g 
1868 

1870 



Death. 



Remarks. 



dau. of Eli C. 



w. of Andrew. 
■w. of Walter. 



J. of Eli C. 

■w. of Horace W. 

w. of Robert. 



aft. 1834 

183S i7f. ofjoel. 

w. of Lewis. 

1S48 I 

IS67,<^.79 



i86o,«.82l 

1868, cs. 72 OT. of Gideon. 

l83i,<r.77l 

1835 w. of John M. 



1852 



1850 



1872 



1859 



1870, «. 55 
1889 



of Daniel. 
wid. of George F. 
m. Raymond French. 
w. of Stephen. 
■w, of Samuel D. 



OT. of Ebenezer. 

Pastor. 

w. of Rev. J. H. 



•w. of Theodore. 



'tv. of Levi. 

dau. of Stephen. 

dau. Geo. F.; m. H. E. Staniford 

ni. 1866, Gurnsey W. Davis. 

w. of James. 



wid. of Daniel. 
w. of Eliphalet. 
w. of John D. 



—231- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Thompson, Emma L 

Thomas, Emma J. (Kellogg) 

Treat, Marv Angeline (Clark) .. 

Treat, Mary Clark 

Thompson, Myrtle A 

Thompson, Phoebe A 



Ufford, Widow Betsey.- 

Underwood, Mary L. (Seward). 



Vail, Franklin Y 

Vail, Catharine M 

Vose, Polly Ann 

Vandervoort, Peter 

Van Sickles, Mathias M 

Van Gasbeck, Fannie (Hall) 

Van Gasbeck, William H. 

Van Syckel, Amelia, 

Van Dalsan, Rev. Henry A 

Van Dalsan, Sarah A. 

Vervait, Stephanie M 



Wade, Nathaniel -bef. 



Wheeler, Ezra. 



S 



Wheeler, Polly. 

West, William . 
West, Eunice.. 
Wordin, Thomas C. 



Wordin, Nancy ■! 

Wallace, Perlina ., 

Wetmore, Sally 

Wilcox, Alvan 

Wilcox, Patience 

Wheeler, Sally 

Wordin, Susanna 

Wordin, Anna 

Whiting, Seymour 

Wheeler, Maria 

Wordin, Lucy __ 

Wordin, Mary Ann 

Warner, Hiram — 

Wakeman, Matilda 

Wells, Charity 

Wheeler, Rosanna 

Wade, George 

Wanzer, Thomas 

Waterman, Susan Johan 

Wordin, Clara 

Wheeler, Eliza 

Wheeler, Julianna 

Wright, William 

Whittemore, Robert J 

Wheeler, Marietta 



874 

874 
882 
8gi 
891 
892 



821 

890 P. 

S26 

826 L. 
S27 P. 
821 .... 



Dismission. 



858 
864 
864 
382 
8S2 
893 



P. 
P. 
P. I 
L. 

L.' 
P-l 



813R.C.! 
S2S P.| 
Sog R.C.! 

815 

S09 R.C.| 
S15 ---. 
S13R.C. 
813 R.C 
815 R.C. 
SisR.C.i 

821 

821 R.C.| 

808 

809 

809 

809 

812 

814 

S15 --: 
815 .... 

815 -.-I 

Si5 ...-1 
815 .--.I 
816 

817 ---! 

819 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 

821 



1878 

i83g 



1893 
1893 



1890 



18S2 
1882 



1S30 



dism. 



1830 



dism. 
rem. 



rem. 
rem. 
1830 
1827 



Death. 



1892 



Remarks. 



(/««. of S. S. Hanford ; w. C. S. 
w. of Dr. J. P. 
w. of Amos S. 
dau. of Amos S. 
Jau. of William S. 
'. of William S. 



Pastor. 

w. of Rev. F. Y. 



ui. of William. 
w. of Matthias M. 
-M. of Rev. H. A. 



1857 
Nov.15'56 
Nov.i6'56 

1866, <?. 74 
1822, «. 74 



1621, IS. 58 

1812 
1818, (Z-. 35 



1820, «. 24 

1842, te. 61 
1879 

1827,1^.35 



w. of Ezra. 
ui. of William. 



w. of Thomas C. 
w. of Abijah. 



ta. of Alvan. 
70. of Benjamin. 
liau. of William. 



to New York. 



dau. of Jedidiah. 



Gabandon. 



m. Thompson. 



—232- 



Name. 



Admission. 



Waterman, Julia A 1821 

Word in, Laura 1821 

Waterman, Emma — 1821 

Wakeman, Catharine 1821 

Wade, Ann .- 1822 

Ward, Thomas - 1822 

Ward, Anna_,- 1822 L. 

Wheeler, Benjamin Samuel 1821 

Waterman, Lucy 1824 

Wade, Sarah 1825 

Wade, Nathaniel, Jr. _. 1825 

Wheeler, Widow Susan 1825 

Washburn, Betsey H 1826 L. 

Wood, Frances 1827 L. 

Wells, Widow Julietta 1827 P. 

Woodhull, Mary 1827 P. 

Woodhull, Samuel : 1827 P. 

Wilson, Jarvis 1827 P. 

Whiltemore, Sally 1827 P. 

Williams, Rhoda Ann 1827 P. 

Ward, Caroline 1828 P. 

Wolley, Fanny 1828 P. 

Wordi'n, Laura 182S P. 

Wolcott, Elizabeth - 

Waterman, Betsey I bef. 1826 

Wordin, Mrs bef. 1830 

Weeks, Abigail - 1831 

Weeks, Charlotte - 1831 

Wordin, Nathaniel S 1831 P. 

Weeks, Ebenezer 1831 

Whiting, Maria ._ 1831 

Whiting, Sarah C 1831 

Woodworth, W. W 1831 

Wade, Catharine 1831 

Wade, Henry 1831 

Wordin, Susan M 1S31 

Whitehead, Priscilla N 1831 

Wheeler, Philo C 1831 

Wordin, Levi 1833 P. 

Wilson, John 1S34 

Wilson, Elizabeth 1834 

Wilson, Janette 1834 

Wheeler, Emily 1835 

Woodridge. Mary Ann - 1837 

Woodbridge, Maty 1837 

Woodbridge, Emeline 1838. .. 

Woodbridge, Rev. John 1837 

Woodrufi, John L. - 1839 L, 

Woodruff 1839 L, 

Waterbury, Charles 1839 

Wyatt, Thomas 1839 

Wyatt, Ahiiira 1839 

Wordin, FannyA. (Leavenworth) 1840 L. 

Whiting, Mary 1841 

Wheeler, Rhoda T 1841 L. 

Waterman, Cordelia (Sterling).. 1844 P. 

Wilson, James 1844 P. 



Dismission, 



1830 

1830 
1830 

1830 
1S30 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1836 
1830 
1830 
1830 

1830 
1830 
1830 

dism. 



dism. 
1837 
1834 



dism. 

1838 
1838 
1838 
1S38 



dism. 
dism. 
dism. 



Death. 



1868 



Remarks. 



m. Alanson F. Lewis. 



wid. of Franklin ? 



w. of Rev. Elijah. 
■U). of James, 
died at Yale. 



liau. of Joseph and Frances. 



m. Day. 

m. Tomlinson. 



l88g 
1855 

aft. 1S57 

aft. 1835 

1870, <?. 69 

1858 

1853 



w, of Ephraim. 



w. of John. 
w. of Philo C. 



w, of John L. 



1892 

1841 
i860, a:. 79 

1885 \w. of Robert H. 
i852,<?.82?| 



wid. of • 



-233— 



Name. 



Admission. 



Wheaton, Ann Maria 1845 P- 

Worden, Elizabeth 1845 P. 

Weed. Susan 1840 

Wood, Sarah Ann 1847 P. 

Wheeler. Mrs. Ira B 1848 

Weed, Joseph B 1848 P. 

Wheeler, Jane 1852 L. 

Wheeler, Henry T 1852 L. 

Wordin, Mrs. Thomas C. 

Whiting, Ephraim (soc. 1800?).. 1837 

Waterman, Robert H. ._ 

W.itkins, Maria Seeley 1S45 P. 

Wheaton, John F 

Watkins, Thomas (soc. 1857) 

Wheeler, Hannah - 

Wheeler, Ira B 

Wells, David F. 1855 P. 

Winslovv, Elizabeth 1855 L. 

Winslow, Andrew (soc. 1856, '65) 

Wheaton, Sarah E. 1855 L. 

Wilcox. Elias 1855 L. 

Wilcox, Eliza. _ 1855 L. 

Wade, Munson (soc. 1868) 185S P. 

Wales, Sarah I 1857 L. 

Wales, 

Wakeman, Mary 1858 L. 

Wakeman, David 

Weeks, Emily S.. 1858 L. 

Weeks, 

Winslow, Henry T. 1858 P. 

Wordin, Helen C 1858 P. 

Whiting, John 

Waller, Urania 1859 L. 

Wales, Caroline M. 1859 L. 

Waller, George B. (soc. 1856) 

Whitney. Fanny M. (Parrott)... 1S58 P. 

Watrous, Annie . 

Watrous, Richard 

Warner, George W. 1861 L. 

Whiting, Henrietta E. 1862 L. 

Wright, William Burr..- 1861 L. 

Wright, Polly (Burr). 1S61 L. 

Winslow, Charles 1863 P. 

Waller, Susan H 1863 P. 

Wheeler, Clarissa L 1863 L. 

Wheeler, Charles B 

Warner, James P 1864 L. 

Wordin, Alice.. 1864 P. 

Wakeman, Julia 1867 L. 

Warren, Sheldon (soc. 1868) 

Warner, Mary E 1867 L. 

Williams, William H 

Williams, A. W. C. (soc. 1868).. 

Williams, Elizabeth H... 1868 L. 

Warren, Stanley P 1870 L. 

Warren, Sarah North 1870 L. 

Waldron, Fanny H _ 1867 L. 



Dismission. Death. 



185S 
1858 



1859 
1869 
1S69 
1862 
185S 
1858 

i860 
i860 
1868 
1 868 
1866 
1S66 



1861 



1870 

1870 



1869 



1871 



Remarks. 



1852 
1888 

1864 

1859 

1887 

1864, <B. 74 

1855 

1867 
i860, ce. 76 



w. of John F. 



■w. of Joseph. 
w. of Sherman S. 



iu. of Henry T. 
Dorcas ? 



■w. of Thomas. 



■w. of Andrew. 



■w. of Elias. 

w. of . 

w. of David. 
w. of . 



1863, <e. 22 
1873 



returning from war. 
dau. of Nathaniel S. 



1890 



w. of George B. 
w. of Henry. 



IU. of John D. 



m. Legrand Sterling. 
■w. of William Burr. 



m. Alex Hawley. 
w. of Charles B. 



\dau. of Levi. 
■ui. of . 



w. of George W. 



w. of A. W. 0. 
w. of Stanley P. 



-234- 



Name. 



AdmissiOD. 



Dismission. 



Wheeler, Horace 1864 P. 

Wordin, Fanny L -- 1864 P. 

Williams, Helen K.... -.. 1868 P. 

Wilmot, Sarah M 1869 L. 

Warren, Jane M 1S67 P. 

Wade, George (soc. 1835). 1868 L. 

Waterbury, M. Louise 1871 L. 

Wilmot, Samuel R. (soc. 1S68).. 1874 P. 

Wordin, Dr. Nathaniel Eugene. 1873 P. 

Wilmot, Frank A 1876 P. 

Wheaton, Ann Elizabeth 1S74 P. 

Wheaton, Martha Maria _ 1874 P. 

Witmeyer, Israel Long 1877 L. 

Wordin, Thomas Cook 1876 P. 

Wilson, Rev. John Saul 1878 L. 

Wilson, Susie Virginie (Stevens) 1878 P. 

Wheeler, Jennie Griffing. 1S79 P. 

Weeks, William Warren 1877 P. 

Wohlers, Norinda J -. 1880 P. 

Woodhull, Elizabeth Rogers... 1880 L. 

Woodhull, Emma Augusta 1880 L. 

Wilson, Catharine A 1881 L. 

Werner, Mary A 1S82 L. 

Werner, Thomas W 1882 L. 

Wolffe, Clara Sherwood (Porter) 1S83 P. 

White, Robert J 1884 L. 

White, Ellen W _ 1884 L. 

Wordin, Eliza W. (Barnes) 1884 L. 

Wilson, William H. E 1884 P. 

Whiting, Mary Fanny (Kensett) 1S84 P. 

Wilson, Bertha Storrs (Wheaton) 1885 P. 

Wheeler, Robert Edgar 1886 P. 

Wilmot, Ethelyn Mildred 1885 P. 

Wilson, Isabella Gertrude 1885 P. 

Wells, Joseph S 1886 L. 

Wells, Agnes T 1886 L. 

Wilson, Carrie Somers 1887 L. 

Wordin, Frances C 1S86 L. 

Warriner, Dr. M. A l8go L. 

Warriner, Flora C 1889 L. 

Williams, Samuel D. P. 1890 L. 

Williams. Etta Mae 1890 L. 

Withington, Augustus S. 1893 P. 

Withington, Lucy E. 1893 P. 

Walter, Margaret Bell 1894 P. 

Walter, Sarah Frances.. 1894 P. 



Young, Catharine . 

Young, Betsey bef. 1S26 

Youngs, James 1864 

Zeller, Samuel Snively 1889 

Zeller, Nellie Frances 18S9 

Zeller, Annie Russell 1889 



18S7 



1879 
1877 



1879 
1891 

1893 

1893 
1889 

1885 
1886 
1893 



1892 
1890 
1890 



1892 
1S92 
1892 



Death. 



1879 



1878 



1884 
1885 



Remarks. 



■w, of William H. 
w. of Samuel R. 



, W. Henshaw. 



J. of Nathaniel S. 
s. of Samuel R. 
■w. of George E. 
Jati. of George E. 



J. of Nathaniel S. 



dau. of Charles H. 
dau. of Henry T. 



■wid. of D. H. 



TO. of D. W. 
wid, of Theo. N. 
s. of Mary A. 



wid. of Robert J. 
zci. of Dr. N. E. 



CI. of Frank H. 



[Bryning. 
dau. of Samuel R., /«. P. L. 
m. C. M. Baer. 



a/, of F. M. 
zti. of T. Cook, 



'V. of Dr. M. A. 

TO. of s. b. p. 



w. of Augustus S. 
datt. of Edward P. 
7£». of Edward P. 



■w. of Samuel S. 
dau. of Samuel S. 



9^8 



